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Warty and clear‐cell Bowen's disease successfully treated with photodynamic treatment
Author(s) -
Sezer Engin,
Yuksek Jale
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
photodermatology, photoimmunology and photomedicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.736
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1600-0781
pISSN - 0905-4383
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0781.2009.00482.x
Subject(s) - bowen's disease , hyperkeratosis , epidermis (zoology) , cell , dermatology , lesion , population , darier's disease , dyskeratosis , medicine , disease , pathology , pathological , basal cell , biology , anatomy , genetics , environmental health
Clear cell Bowen's disease (BD) is a rare histopathological subtype of BD, characterized by epidermal atypical keratinocytes with clear‐cell changes exceeding 80% of the tumor population. Warty and clear cell Bowen's disease (WCCBD) is a recently described variant of clear cell BD, with verrucous and hyperkeratotic surface changes in addition to pathological features consisting of an extremely acanthotic epidermis, hyperkeratosis and clear‐cell changes. Herein we present a 72‐year‐old man with a 1‐year history of tumoral lesion located on the left cheek with a diagnosis of WCCBD, in whom we achieved excellent result with photodynamic treatment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second reported case of this entity.