【Could a Cutaneous Lesion Mean Gastric Cancer? Case Report of a Rare Diagnostic Tool and the Management of a Cardiac Complication during Chemotherapy】

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Article by Cátia Fava Gaspar, et al., from Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Porto (IPO Porto), Portugal.

#Cutaneous_metastasis and its manifestation of gastric cancer are rare and when it appears, it is usually associated with widespread disease and poor prognosis. This article presents a case of a 56-year-old Portuguese man with a locally advanced gastric cancer presenting with a single cutaneous metastatic lesion, which aims to make clinicians aware of one unusual sign such as a skin lesion may present as an initial manifestation of metastatic #gastric_cancer and to be noticed that, despite the metastatic setting at the diagnosis. This article also reports, in the same patient, the development of an #intracardiac_thrombus and the challenging management of pursuing chemotherapy treatments.