Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Cat with lung cancer spreading to abdominal skin causing rash
By Favrot, Claude & Degorce-Rubiales, Frederique·Published in Veterinary dermatology·2005·Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Cutaneous metastases of a bronchial adenocarcinoma in a cat.
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Plain-English summary
A 10-year-old domestic shorthair cat was brought in for coughing and later developed red, swollen patches and pustules on its belly. After tests including X-rays and skin biopsies, the vet found that the cat had skin metastases from a type of lung cancer called bronchial adenocarcinoma. Unfortunately, the prognosis was poor, and the difficult decision was made to euthanize the cat. This case highlights a rare occurrence of lung cancer spreading to the skin in cats.
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Abstract
This case report describes a cat with metastasis of a bronchial adenocarcinoma to the abdominal skin. The cat had been treated with antibiotics and corticosteroids for several episodes of coughing when it acutely developed erythema, pustules and plaques on the abdominal skin. Diagnosis was based on cytological examination of fine-needle aspirates of cutaneous pustules, X-ray examination of the thorax and histological examination of skin biopsy samples. As the prognosis was poor, the cat was euthanased. Necropsy findings confirmed the diagnosis. Cutaneous metastases of lung carcinoma are rare in cats but have been reported in the digits with underlying bone involvement. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of metastasis of a feline bronchial carcinoma to the ventral skin.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15960632/