EYELID METASTASIS ORIGINATED FROM GASTRIC-CANCER

The incidence of cutaneous metastasis from neoplasms of internal organ s is uncommon, and in particular eyelid metastasis from gastric cancer is extremely rare. We report on such a case together with a review of a total of 6 cases. Of the 6 cases, 5 were males and 4 were pathologi cally low-grade differentiated adenocarcinoma. The presentation of eye lid mass was 3 nodular, 2 diffuse and one ulcerative without character istics of its location. All the cases involved systemic disease and th e effective treatment was not performed. We consider that the number o f cases with eyelid metastasis from gastric cancer is actually much hi gher and that gastroenterologists should pay more attention to such ca ses in order to adequately grasp the pathogenesis.