Woman's 'Velvety' Palms Ended Up Being a Symptom of Cancer

A 73-year-old Brazilian woman was diagnosed with lung cancer after she showed up at a dermatologist's clinic with a rare medical condition of velvety 'triple palms.

An elderly smoker who acknowledged that she'd gone through a pack of cigarettes every day for 30 years, the woman was suffering from painful lesions on her hands.

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‘Velvety palms constitute a rare medical condition called 'tripe palms', due to their resemblance to the rippled appearance of the stomach lining of cows, pigs, or sheep.’

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According to Science Alert that cited a case published in a paper in The New England Journal of Medicine, she also had a cough for about a year and had lost 5 kg in the last four months alone.

"Physical examination revealed sharp demarcation of the folds in the lines of her hands in addition to a velvety appearance of palmar surfaces and ridging of the skin," her doctors wrote in the case report.

Sometimes Velvety palm called acanthosis palmaris, such tripe palms fall under skin disorder.

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In the case of this 73-year-old patient, a CT scan revealed irregularities in her lungs.

A subsequent biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of adenocarcinoma, and she underwent chemotherapy and radiation therapy, said the report.

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"All patients with tripe palms should be evaluated with a full diagnostic workup for an associated malignancy, particularly lung or gastric carcinoma," wrote the researchers.

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