A Rare Report of Lung Metastasis of the Common Non-Melanotic Skin Cancer

Basal cell carcinoma is a common non-melanotic skin cancer with a prevalence of 74.5%–82.6% in the Iranian population. BCC rarely metastasizes. However, metastasis can cause significant morbidity. The prevalence of metastatic basal cell carcinoma varies between 0.0028% and 0.55% of all cases. We des...

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Autores principales: Shafiepour, Mohsen, Kiani, Arda, Taghavi, Kimia, Seifi, Sharareh, Rezaie, Mitra Sadat, Hashemian, Seyed Mohammad Reza, Abedini, Atefeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6087531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30116282
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Sumario:Basal cell carcinoma is a common non-melanotic skin cancer with a prevalence of 74.5%–82.6% in the Iranian population. BCC rarely metastasizes. However, metastasis can cause significant morbidity. The prevalence of metastatic basal cell carcinoma varies between 0.0028% and 0.55% of all cases. We describe a case of lung metastasis of basal cell carcinoma of the scalp.

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