DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2022.v10i02.019

Pages: 122-124

Merkel cell carcinoma is an uncommon primary neuroendocrine carcinoma of skin which affects elderly and immunosuppressed patients. The confirmatory diagnosis require histopathological examination as the clinical features are non - specific. Differentiation from metastatic neuroendocrine carcinoma requires clinicopathological correlation plays important role in differentiation. We present a rare case of merkel cell carcinoma. In a 68 year male patient who presented with exophytic growth arising from umbilicus with metastasis in inguinal lymph node.