Alopecia Neoplastica Inducing Underlying Lytic Skull Metastasis

Rubén Linares Navarro; Héctor Perandones González; Pedro Sánchez Sambucety; Ana De La Hera Magallanes; Manuel Ángel Rodríguez Prieto

doi:10.4103/ijd.ijd_991_20

Alopecia Neoplastica Inducing Underlying Lytic Skull Metastasis

Indian J Dermatol. 2022 Jan-Feb;67(1):93. doi: 10.4103/ijd.ijd_991_20.

Authors

Rubén Linares Navarro¹, Héctor Perandones González¹, Pedro Sánchez Sambucety¹, Ana De La Hera Magallanes², Manuel Ángel Rodríguez Prieto¹

Affiliations

¹ Dermatology Department, Hospital Universitario de León, León, Spain.
² Pathology Department, Hospital Universitario de León, León, Spain.

Abstract

Alopecia neoplastica is a rare type of cutaneous metastasis. The most frequent presentation consists of red-violaceous nodular scarring alopecia located at the parietal area. The most frequent primary tumor locations are the breast and gastrointestinal tract. We report a case of alopecia neoplastica that induced an underlying lytic bone metastasis. After a rigorous literature search, we could not find another case showing this mechanism.

Keywords: Alopecia neoplastica; cutaneous metastasis; oncology.