H. M. Aminur Rashid1, Shabnam Sarwar Sejooti2, Mustaq Adnan1, Mehedi Hasan1, Syed Nesar Ahmed3, Bulbul Parveen3, Titop Kumar Bala3, Sanwar Nawaz Khan3, Md. Khairul Hassan Jessy4, A.H.M.Raihanuzzaman Sarkar5

Abstract
Lung cancer with skin metastasis is a relatively rare entity and associated with poor prognosis. It can
easily lead to misdiagnosis and mistreatments when it presents with skin involvement. Early recognition of
the skin metastasis is important as it may be the presenting sign of an underlying malignancy. In such
cases, skin manifestation can be an easily accessible site for tissue diagnosis. Most common sites for
skin metastasis are chest, back, abdomen, head, and neck and they are usually single or multiple painless
nodules. However, the skin metastasis in squamous and small cell lung carcinoma is uncommon and it
carries rapidly fatal clinical outcome. Also only 15% of lung malignancy metastasizes initially to vertebral
spine. We present a rare case of non-small cell lung cancer presenting as rapidly growing skin and
vertebral metastases.
Keywords: Lung cancer, Skin metastasis, Vertebral metastasis, Non small cell lung carcinoma

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