Clinical and Molecular Features of Morpheaform Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Systematic Review

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin cancer, with a lifetime risk currently approaching up to 40% in Caucasians. Among these, some clinical and pathological BCC variants pose a higher risk due to their more aggressive biological behavior. Morpheaform BCC (morBCC), also known as scleros...

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Autores principales: Conte, Santina, Ghezelbash, Sarah, Nallanathan, Bonika, Lefrançois, Philippe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Systematic Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10670319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37999140
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol30110720
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Sumario:Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin cancer, with a lifetime risk currently approaching up to 40% in Caucasians. Among these, some clinical and pathological BCC variants pose a higher risk due to their more aggressive biological behavior. Morpheaform BCC (morBCC), also known as sclerosing, fibrosing, or morpheic BCC, represents up to 5–10% of all BCC. Overall, morBCC carries a poorer prognosis due to late presentation, local tissue destruction, tumor recurrence, and higher frequency of metastasis. In this systematic review, we review the epidemiological, clinical, morphological, dermatoscopical, and molecular features of morBCC. After the title and abstract screening of 222 studies and the full-text review of 84 studies, a total of 54 studies met the inclusion criteria and were thus included in this review.

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