Case Reports in Dermatology (Aug 2018)

A Case of Primary Cutaneous Basal Cell Carcinosarcoma

  • Hiromi Suzuki,
  • Akira Hashimoto,
  • Ryoko Saito,
  • Miki Izumi,
  • Setsuya Aiba

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000492525
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2
pp. 208 – 215

Abstract

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A 94-year-old man consulted our hospital due to a rapidly growing tumor on the left cheek. The histological diagnosis of the tumor was basal cell carcinosarcoma, which was composed of intermingled epithelial and mesenchymal components. The former was basal cell carcinoma, while the latter was spindle cell sarcoma. The tumor was completely resected with a 3-mm margin and the patient remained free of local recurrence or distinct metastasis for 2 years. We report here a case of cutaneous basal cell carcinosarcoma and a review of the literature.

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