A 47 year old non-parous woman who had never had abdominal surgery was admitted with a four year history of an intermittently palpable nodule in the umbilical region. Initially, she noticed an increase in lesional size and pressure pain, which resolved within a few days. Six months before admission, blue-black discoloration appeared in the umbilical area; this vanishedwithin a week but reappear...

Sister Mary Joseph's nodule is sometimes the first sign of an internal malignancy, including gastrointestinal, gynecological, or malignancy of unknown primary. It is rarely the sole presentation of a primary peritoneal cancer. In this report, we present the case of a 70-year-old female with umbilical drainage and a computed tomography scan consistent with solitary umbilical nodule. Excision of ...

INTRODUCTION Endometriosis is a common gynecological condition and presents mainly with involvement of the pelvic organs. Extrapelvic presentations in almost all parts of the body have been reported in the literature. However, umbilical endometriosis that is spontaneous or secondary to surgery is uncommon and accounts for only 0.5% to 1% of all endometriosis cases. CASE PRESENTATION A 35-year...

Umbilical nodes are rare. The metastatic involvement of the region was first described in 1846. Sister Mary Joseph was the first observer to establish the correlation between carcinomas and umbilical nodes. The umbilical node may be the sole presenting sign of cancer and is usually associated with advanced disease and poor prognosis. A 64-year-old woman, previously healthy, presented vague abdo...

BACKGROUND Umbilical metastasis, also called Sister Mary Joseph's nodule (SMJN), is defined as the umbilical nodule associated with advanced metastatic intra-abdominal and pelvic malignancies. A patient with umbilical metastasis has been deemed to have a poor prognosis. Rectal cancer presenting with a SMJN is a rare phenomenon, especially in the early stage and in middle-low rectal cancer. CA...

Umbilical tumors are relatively rare and can be classified as benign or malignant. The term "Sister Mary Joseph nodule" is used to describe an umbilical neoplasm associated with advanced metastatic intra-abdominal malignancy. It generally has a poor prognosis.

Sister Mary Joseph Nodule refers to an umbilical nodule resulting from metastasis from an intra-abdominal malignancy, either pelvic (common in females), or gastrointestinal system (common in males). We report a case of Sister Mary Joseph Nodule in a lady which resulted from gastric malignancy.

A 95-year-old woman presented with an umbilical mass, pain, and loss of appetite over a three-week period. Physical examination showed a hard nodule protruding through the umbilicus (Picture 1). Computed tomography revealed a nodule at the umbilicus (Picture 2) along with multiple liver metastases. These results led to a diagnosis of a Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule (1). As a result of her advance...