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Basal cell carcinoma showing connections with epidermal cysts
Author(s) -
Tanaka M,
Terui T,
Sasai S,
Tagami H
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of the european academy of dermatology and venereology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.655
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1468-3083
pISSN - 0926-9959
DOI - 10.1046/j.1468-3083.2003.00807.x
Subject(s) - epidermis (zoology) , nodule (geology) , pathology , medicine , basal cell carcinoma , basal cell , epidermal cyst , basal (medicine) , carcinoma , adenoid cystic carcinoma , anatomy , biology , paleontology , insulin
Basal cell carcinomas arising from epidermal cysts are rare. A 76‐year‐old Japanese man had had a blackish nodule on his right knee for 15 years, under which he later noticed the development of a subcutaneous nodule. On histological examination masses of tumour cells showed the feature of adenoid and solid patterns of basal cell carcinoma that were connected to the wall of epidermal cysts in many places as well as with the overlying epidermis.