[A Case of the Rectal Cancer with Metastatic Skin Cancer after Inguinal Hernia Surgery]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2023 Dec;50(13):1912-1914.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A woman in her 90s underwent laparoscopic hernia repair for a recurrent left inguinal hernia with abdominal wall defect 2 years ago. She came to our department with a complaint of a mass in the hernia wound, which was suspected to be a skin cancer, and the pathology diagnosis was adenocarcinoma. A colonoscopy was performed and she was diagnosed with sigmoid rectal cancer with only skin metastasis and the operation was performed. Laparoscopic anterior resection of the rectum, excision of the skin tumor, mesh removal, and rectus abdominis skin grafting were performed, and these were radical surgery. Simultaneous cutaneous metastasis of rectal cancer is extremely rare, being part of the 2.0% of other sites, and is reported with some literature review.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma* / surgery
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Female
  • Hernia, Inguinal* / diagnosis
  • Hernia, Inguinal* / surgery
  • Humans
  • Laparoscopy*
  • Rectal Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Sigmoid Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Skin Neoplasms* / surgery