Skull metastases from extramammary Paget's disease emerging 8 years after initial treatment with no local progression: illustrative case

J Neurosurg Case Lessons. 2022 Sep 26;4(13):CASE22280. doi: 10.3171/CASE22280. Print 2022 Sep 26.

Abstract

Background: The foci of distant metastasis from extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD) are the lung, liver, truncal bones, vertebrae, and brain. However, skull metastases have not been reported.

Observations: The authors treated a patient with calvarial and skull base metastases from EMPD who had undergone wide local resection of EMPD 8 years before, and they report his clinical course.

Lessons: Because EMPD with distant metastasis is fatal, it should be recognized that EMPD can metastasize to the skull even when it seemed to be in remission for several years.

Keywords: calvarial bone; extramammary Paget’s disease; metastasis; skull.