Cutaneous metastasis from carcinoma of tonsil.

• Main Authors: Dasmajumdar S, Gairola M, Sharma D, Mohanti B
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2002-01-01
• Series: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
• Subjects: Carcinoma; Squamous Cell; radiotherapy; secondary; Case Report; Human; Male; Palliative Care; Skin Neoplasms; Tonsillar Neoplasms; pathology
• Online Access: http://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=2002;volume=48;issue=1;spage=32;epage=3;aulast=Dasmajumdar

Hematogenous spread from carcinoma of tonsil is an uncommon event and skin is an extremely rare site of metastasis. We encountered a 40-year-old male patient who initially presented with carcinoma of the tonsil with T3N2cMO disease and treated by curative radiotherapy. After about 2 years, he developed a skin lesion in the periorbital region which on cytological examination turned out to be metastasis from tonsillar carcinoma. The present paper describes this rare case report along with a brief review of the literature.