| • | ~ inflammatory metastases; sometimes mistaken for cellulitis |
| • | most frequently seen in metastatic breast carcinoma |
| • | appear to be caused by tumor infiltration of dermal lymphatics, where they create obstruction |
| • | to be differentiated from cancer en cuirasse (AKA schirrhous carcinoma) in which the skin is indurated and biopsy reveals fibrosis and only a few tumor cells |
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