Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer with Skull Infiltration and Cranial Involvement

BACKGROUND: Skin cancer is an uncommon cause of skull invasion, dural infiltration and brain parenchyma involvement. CASE REPORT: We report on a series of three elderly patients who presented with squamous cell carcinoma of the scalp with skull bone and cerebral invasion and discuss the diagnostic a...

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Autores principales: Wollina, Uwe, Kittner, Thomas, Nowak, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Republic of Macedonia 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6910817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31850116
http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.416
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description BACKGROUND: Skin cancer is an uncommon cause of skull invasion, dural infiltration and brain parenchyma involvement. CASE REPORT: We report on a series of three elderly patients who presented with squamous cell carcinoma of the scalp with skull bone and cerebral invasion and discuss the diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. CONCLUSION: A major factor of delayed diagnosis of this potentially life-threatening skin cancer feature is patients’ neglecting.
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spelling pubmed-69108172019-12-17 Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer with Skull Infiltration and Cranial Involvement Wollina, Uwe Kittner, Thomas Nowak, Andreas Open Access Maced J Med Sci Case Report BACKGROUND: Skin cancer is an uncommon cause of skull invasion, dural infiltration and brain parenchyma involvement. CASE REPORT: We report on a series of three elderly patients who presented with squamous cell carcinoma of the scalp with skull bone and cerebral invasion and discuss the diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. CONCLUSION: A major factor of delayed diagnosis of this potentially life-threatening skin cancer feature is patients’ neglecting. Republic of Macedonia 2019-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6910817/ /pubmed/31850116 http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.416 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Uwe Wollina, Thomas Kittner, Andreas Nowak. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/CC BY-NC/4.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer with Skull Infiltration and Cranial Involvement
title Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer with Skull Infiltration and Cranial Involvement
title_full Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer with Skull Infiltration and Cranial Involvement
title_fullStr Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer with Skull Infiltration and Cranial Involvement
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title_short Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer with Skull Infiltration and Cranial Involvement
title_sort nonmelanoma skin cancer with skull infiltration and cranial involvement
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6910817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31850116
http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.416
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