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Fırat Tıp Dergisi
2008, Cilt 13, Sayı 3, Sayfa(lar) 210-212
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A Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma (Carcinoma Erysipeloides) Case
Demet ÇİÇEK1, Başak KANDİ1, Nursel DİLEK1, Betül DEMİR1, Ferda DAĞLI2
1 Fırat Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Dermatoloji Anabilim Dalı, ELAZIĞ
2 Fırat Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Patoloji Anabilim Dalı, ELAZIĞ

Carcinoma erysipeloides is a rare cutaneouse metastasis, which develops in connection with the malignancies, and it is also known as inflammatory metastatic carcinoma. The development rate of carcinoma eysipeloides in cutaneous metastasis is reported as 3.8%-5.2%. It mostly develops in connection with the breast carcinoma. However, there are some cases caused by carcinoma in malign melanoma, lungs, thyroid, prostate, larynx and gastric adenocarcinoma.

A 38-year old female patient, who was diagnosis as invasive ductal carcinoma and undergone a right modified radical mastectomy and took cyclophosphamide, adrimycin and fluorouracil chemotherapy, applied to our policlinic with the complaint of erythema on the operation area and tumescence on the right arm. In the histopathologic examination of the biopsy material taken from the lesions, it was determined that such areas were invasive with the tumor cells of the superficial and deep dermal lenfatics and she was diagnosed as carcinoma erysipeloides. It was continued to the current chemotherapeutical treatment of the patient, but no clinical recovery was achieved.©2008, Firat University, Medical Faculty.


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