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Cureus 2021 Dec 9;13(12):e20301. Epub 2021 Dec 9.

Dermatology, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, USA.

Cutaneous metastases occur in approximately 10% of oncology patients as a feature of a persistent solid tumor or the harbinger of recurrent neoplastic disease. However, they can be the presenting manifestation of an unsuspected visceral malignancy in one percent of previously cancer-free individuals. Metastatic skin lesions from breast carcinoma are diverse in their appearance. Read More

Dermatology 2015 24;231(3):213-6. Epub 2015 Jul 24.

Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

We describe a unique patient with multiple angiokeratomas on both upper eyelids and on the scrotum. We review the literature and discuss the pathogenetic relationship. Angiokeratomas are described as vascular lesions, which are defined histologically as one or several dilated blood vessel(s) covered by a keratotic layer. Read More

Acta Med Croatica 2006 ;60(1):55-8

Zavod za dijalizu, Klinicki bolnicki centar Zagreb, Zagreb, Hrvatska.

Anderson-Fabry disease is a rare inherited X-linked lysosomal storage disease caused by deficiency of the enzyme alpha-galactosidase A. The deficiency of alpha-galactosidase activity leads to progressive, abnormal accumulation of neutral glycosphingolipids in the lysosome. With increasing age globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) progressively accumulates in different cells, tissues and organs throughout the body. Read More

Med Cutan Ibero Lat Am 1985 ;13(2):129-40

Fabry's disease (angiokeratoma corporis diffusum) is an X-linked recessive inherited metabolic defect due to the lack of the enzyme alpha-galactosidase A. We reviewed the Argentine literature on the subject, the main features of the disease and its differential diagnosis. Two patients aged ten and fifteen are described showing the characteristic clinical picture of the disease since ages four and nine respectively. Read More

Can J Ophthalmol 1984 Jun;19(4):192-8

Heterozygous females with Fabry's disease show a typical whorled pattern in the corneal epithelium. The patient presented in this paper also had symptoms of polymyositis, necrotizing vasculitis and angiokeratomas. The diagnosis was made from the corneal changes. Read More