Except for those on acanthosis nigricans, observations on cutaneous manifestations of malignant visceral tumors are not common. In 1922 Davis1 reported on 2 patients with exudative erythema associated with malignant diseases of the uterus. One had a spindle cell sarcoma of the uterus, the eruption clearing shortly before death; the other had a uterine adenocarcinoma, the eruption disappearing promptly after curettage. Becker, Kahn and Rothman2 in 1942 reviewed the literature and reported cutaneous lesions in 2 women who had died of internal malignant tumors, discovered at autopsy: one a neoplasm of the pancreas, and the other a carcinoma of the stomach. In both patients the subjective symptoms were referable to the skin. In a survey of the literature, Becker and associates found only 8 case reports since 1925 demonstrating a relation between dermatoses and malignant tumors. These reports confirmed previous observations3 that internal neoplasms may be responsible