Abstract:Different types of skin change are associated with internal malignancy. Tumour may spread to the skin from adjacent tissues, or may be deposited in the skin by metastasis. More typically dermatologists are called upon to assess paraneoplastic phenomena involving the skin, or to comment on dermatoses which are known, in some cases, to be markers of internal malignancy. Certain rare, inherited conditions, which have skin manifestations, carry a risk for the development of internal neoplasia. In other paraneoplas… Show more
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