A 83-year-old man who had been treated for lung cancer with chemotherapy and radiation for two years developed a rapidly growing and bleeding skin tumor on his left temporal scalp. Ultrasound and CT scans confirmed the scalp tumor was not invasive to the bone but showed metastases from the lung cancer to the lungs, liver, and adrenal glands. A biopsy of the scalp tumor determined it was a metastasis from the man's original squamous cell lung carcinoma.

1. SKIN METASTASIS, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM
MAN 83 YO HAD BEEN TREATED LUNG CANCER WITH CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIATION FOR 2
YEARS.
ONE MONTH AGO HE DETECTED SMALL SKIN TUMOR AT LEFT TEMPORAL
SCALP RAPID GROWING AND BLEEDING ( SEE PICTURE).
ULTRASOUND SCAN REPORTED THIS TUMOR BEING FROM THE SCALP
NON INVASIVE TO BONE..( SEE 2 US PICTURES) AND LIVER METASTASIS ( US3)

2. MSCT CONFIRMED THE SCALP TUMOR NOT EROSION THE BONE, MANY METASTASIS FROM THE
LUNG TUMOR TO BOTH SIDE THE LUNG , LIVER , ADRENAL GLAND.

3. BIOPSY OF THIS TUMOR CONFIRMED THAT METASTASIS FROM LUNG CANCER SQUAMOUS CELL
CARCINOMA..
SUMMARY: LUNG CANCER SOMETIMES METASTASIS TO SKIN OF SCALP AND NOT TO BONE.
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