Abstract
We report a case of mucinous carcinoma of the skin. A 29-year-old Japanese woman with a tumor on the left upper eyelid, which had been growing for two years, consulted a dermatologist, and the tumor was excised. Histological diagnosis disclosed mucinous carcinoma. The patient consulted our hospital because the tumor was suspected of being metastatic skin cancer. On gastro-intestinal fiberscopy, abdominal, mammary gland, and endovaginal ultrasonography and mammography, and gallium scintigraphy, no neoplasm was detected. Consequently, the tumor was diagnosed as mucinous carcinoma of the skin. The excision scar on the orbital septum was excided at a distance of 10mm from the scar, and a skin graft from the back of the auricle was transplanted to the skinless upper eyelid. Nine months after surgery, the patient is able to open and close the upper eyelid, and there has been no evidence of tumor recurrence or metastasis.[Skin Cancer (Japan) 2010 ; 25 : 177-180]
