Umbilical metastasis Images
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Umbilical metastasis; pea-sized, coarse, reddish-livid node with a small, marginal crust in the middle of the navel in a man with metastatic prostate carcinoma (Sister Joseph`s Nodule).
Umbilical metastasis. reflected light microscopy (detail magnification): multiple polymorphic vascular figures with different calibres. brownish-yellowish keratin plaque (histology: circumscribed dyskeratosis with premature keratinization and single cell necrosis). the background is lividly discolored due to an inflammatory dilatation of the postcapillary venules in the area of the subepidermal vascular plexus.