Sister Mary Joseph's Nodule

Commercial-scale mining for polymetallic nodules could have a major impact on the deep-sea environment, but the effects of these… (More)

The umbilicus can be affected by various skin diseases including metastasis of internal malignancies, at which point it is known… (More)

BACKGROUND An umbilical metastatic lesion is called 'Sister Mary Joseph's nodule'. It is an uncommon clinical or radiographic… (More)

The metastasis of a visceral malignancy to the umbilicus is known as "Sister Mary Joseph's nodule" (SMJN). We recently… (More)

Sister Mary Joseph (1856-1939), who was superintendent nurse at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.A. (at present… (More)

In this study, the case is described of an umbilical metastasis as the presenting symptom of an ovarian adenosarcoma. The overall… (More)

The eponym Sister (Mary) Joseph's nodule is referred to the existence of umbilical metastasis. Historically it has been… (More)

TO THE EDITOR: Sister Mary Joseph's nodule has traditionally been considered a sign of ominous prognosis (survival of 10 months… (More)

A 72-year-old woman presented with a progressively enlarging, painful umbilical nodule. A biopsy specimen of the lesion showed… (More)

The clinical and histologic findings in eighty-five cases of tumors metastatic to the umbilicus were studied. Clinically, the… (More)