Prostatic carcinoma metastasizing to skin and subcutaneous tissues

Carcinoma of The Prostate Gland Report of a Case with Skin Involvement

“…Dissemination of prostatic cancer as confirmed by experiments on rats 5 shows that lymph and blood are the major routes. Delima and his colleagues 4 also suggested that lymphatic spread was the route taken in these cases, where the skin involved resembled the case here described.…”

Scrotal and penile papules and plaques as the initial manifestation of a cutaneous metastasis of adenocarcinoma of the prostate: case report and review of the literature

“…Cutaneous spread of prostate cancer is very rare, representing less than 1% of all cutaneous metastasis 3 . A total of 78 such cases 1,7–43 were found in the English and Japanese literature from a Pubmed search. The mean age of these 78 patients was 64.…”

Cutaneous metastasis to the chest wall from prostate cancer

“…Prostate cancer rarely spreads to the skin, representing only 1% of all cutaneous metastasis 3 . In the literature, there are approximately 70 cases of cutaneous metastasis from prostate cancer, 4–47 of which most occur in the inguinal region. However, spread outside of the inguinal region occurs rarely, with only three previously reported cases to the chest wall 22,38,42 .…”