Metastatic carcinoma of the skin develops per continuitatem, being disseminated 
by the lymphogenous and hematogenous pathways. From 3% to 5% of these metastases 
are described as cutaneous metastases. Metastases of the skin most frequently 
occur in breast cancer, and manifest as carcinoma en cuirasse characterized by 
thoracic wall lesions in the form of erythematous foci with induration as in 
scleroderma, or as exulcerating nodules scattered all over the skin surface. We 
studied patient with skin metastases according clinical and histological 
features. Carcinoma en cuirasse with sclerodermatomyositis like clinical 
appearances described in our female 49-year-old patient. She died one year after 
several excisions of skin metastases