Paraneoplastic Erythema Annulare Centrifuge in an 86-Year-Old Woman With Metastatic Colon Adenocarcinoma

Case Report

Abstract

Abstract
The objective of this review is to alert different medical professionals to cutaneous signs and symptoms that can help in the diagnosis of an underlying malignancy. There is a wide spectrum of annular skin lesions that may be related to systemic malignant diseases such as erythema gyratum repens or necrolytic migratory erythema. Other skin lesions, however, do not always indicate malignancy but allow it to be suspected, this is the case of erythema annulare centrifuge, generalized granuloma annulare, subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus , mucinosis erythematosa reticulata and pityriasis rotunda. In this article we focus preferentially on annular skin lesions, more specifically on erythema annulare centrifuge. We present the clinical case of an 86-year-old woman with metastatic colon adenocarcinoma and paraneoplastic erythema annulare centrifuge.