Multiple gastrointestinal metastases of Merkel cell carcinoma

Eligijus Poškus; Gediminas Platkevičius; Vilma Simanskaitė; Ernesta Rimkevičiūtė; Marius Petrulionis; Kestutis Strupas

doi:10.1016/j.medici.2016.09.001

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20 September 2016

Multiple gastrointestinal metastases of Merkel cell carcinoma

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Centre of Abdominal Surgery, Clinic of Gastroenterology, Nephrourology and Surgery, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

National Center of Pathology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

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Centre of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Medicina2016, 52(5), 321-324;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medici.2016.09.001

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Abstract

Merkel cell carcinoma is an aggressive skin malignancy. Primary Merkel cell carcinomas are treated by wide radical excision with or without adjuvant radiotherapy, while benefits of adjuvant chemotherapy remain doubtful. There are only several cases of gastrointestinal metastases of Merkel cell carcinoma reported so far. We report a case of recurrent Merkel cell carcinoma with metastases to the stomach and the small intestines after wide excision of primary Merkel cell carcinoma.

Keywords:

Merkel cell carcinoma; Skin tumors

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