Clinical Case Reports (Feb 2022)

Giant basal cell carcinoma of anterior chest wall reveals metastasis to lungs: A case report

  • Saad Ahmad,
  • David Song,
  • Jonathan Vincent Reyes,
  • Richard Jesse Durrance,
  • Vikash Jaiswal,
  • Nishan Babu Pokhrel,
  • Raju Alluri,
  • Elizabeth Awerbuch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5421
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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Abstract Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common cutaneous malignancy in the world, and the incidence of pulmonary metastasis is exceedingly rare. We present a case of middle‐aged male with findings consistent with BCC with metastasis to the lungs managed with surgical resection and the use of targeted therapy using the hedgehog pathway inhibitor with improvement.

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