Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma of the Skin: An Exceedingly Rare Primary Skin Tumor

Primary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the skin (LE-lCS) is a very rare cutaneous malignancy of uncertain origin. The neoplasm reveals typical morphological similarity to undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (lymphoepithelioma). This case report presents a 47-year-old man with a 5 mm eryth...

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Autores principales: Kushwaha, Ramesh Kumar, Jain, Suresh Kumar, Abhinandan, HB, Baheti, Dinesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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E-IJD Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25814759
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.152583
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author Kushwaha, Ramesh Kumar
Jain, Suresh Kumar
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Baheti, Dinesh
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description Primary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the skin (LE-lCS) is a very rare cutaneous malignancy of uncertain origin. The neoplasm reveals typical morphological similarity to undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (lymphoepithelioma). This case report presents a 47-year-old man with a 5 mm erythematous papule on dorsal nose of six months duration. The patient underwent complete surgical excision and is disease free 7 months later.
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spelling pubmed-43729632015-03-26 Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma of the Skin: An Exceedingly Rare Primary Skin Tumor Kushwaha, Ramesh Kumar Jain, Suresh Kumar Abhinandan, HB Baheti, Dinesh Indian J Dermatol E-IJD Case Report Primary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the skin (LE-lCS) is a very rare cutaneous malignancy of uncertain origin. The neoplasm reveals typical morphological similarity to undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (lymphoepithelioma). This case report presents a 47-year-old man with a 5 mm erythematous papule on dorsal nose of six months duration. The patient underwent complete surgical excision and is disease free 7 months later. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4372963/ /pubmed/25814759 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.152583 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma of the Skin: An Exceedingly Rare Primary Skin Tumor
title Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma of the Skin: An Exceedingly Rare Primary Skin Tumor
title_full Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma of the Skin: An Exceedingly Rare Primary Skin Tumor
title_fullStr Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma of the Skin: An Exceedingly Rare Primary Skin Tumor
title_full_unstemmed Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma of the Skin: An Exceedingly Rare Primary Skin Tumor
title_short Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma of the Skin: An Exceedingly Rare Primary Skin Tumor
title_sort lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the skin: an exceedingly rare primary skin tumor
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