Chronicle of a Pigmented Superficial Basal Cell Carcinoma

Dermoscopic patterns of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) are well defined, but the dynamics of dermoscopic changes in time were apparently never described so far. In this paper, prominent changes were observed over a 8-week period, allowing to establish a close connection between spoke wheel areas and map...

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Autores principales: Caucanas, Marie, Piérard-Franchimont, Claudine, Piérard, Gérald E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3505933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23259087
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/693041
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author Caucanas, Marie
Piérard-Franchimont, Claudine
Piérard, Gérald E.
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description Dermoscopic patterns of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) are well defined, but the dynamics of dermoscopic changes in time were apparently never described so far. In this paper, prominent changes were observed over a 8-week period, allowing to establish a close connection between spoke wheel areas and maple leaf-like aspects, through progressive thickening of the former ones. A chronobiological phenomenon ruling synchronous apoptosis in some of the most superficial BCC nests is suggested, leading to a wax and wane process of millimetric crusts, taking part in the spontaneous BCC regression/progression process.
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spelling pubmed-35059332012-12-20 Chronicle of a Pigmented Superficial Basal Cell Carcinoma Caucanas, Marie Piérard-Franchimont, Claudine Piérard, Gérald E. Case Rep Dermatol Med Case Report Dermoscopic patterns of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) are well defined, but the dynamics of dermoscopic changes in time were apparently never described so far. In this paper, prominent changes were observed over a 8-week period, allowing to establish a close connection between spoke wheel areas and maple leaf-like aspects, through progressive thickening of the former ones. A chronobiological phenomenon ruling synchronous apoptosis in some of the most superficial BCC nests is suggested, leading to a wax and wane process of millimetric crusts, taking part in the spontaneous BCC regression/progression process. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3505933/ /pubmed/23259087 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/693041 Text en Copyright © 2012 Marie Caucanas et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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