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Basal Cell Carcinoma

Management of Non-Healing Lesion

HISTORY An 85-year-old man with a history of multiple BCC and SCC of the scalp previously treated with radiation and intralesional 5-FU presents with a non healing lesion of the left parietal scalp. Shave biopsy of the left parietal scalp performed on 7/21/21 showed a non specific ulcer with atypical squamous epithelium of the scalp.…

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Intralesional 5-fluorouracil for Cutaneous BCC and SCC

HISTORY  An 86-year-old man on hemodialysis with multiple medical problems and on warfarin presented with two carcinomas of the nasal tip: BCC of the left nasal tip and SCC of the right nasal tip. The ulceration of the right SCC exposed the alar cartilage. Patient completed six (6) 5-fluorouracil injections over a 5-week period. Complete…

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Nasal Open Wound Complication

HISTORY A 73-year-old man with BCC of the nasal tip presented 1 week following Mohs excision. His reconstruction was delayed for an additional week for a cardiac work up. Nasal reconstruction was performed with a superior extended nasal myocutaneous flap (SENMI flap) and nasal septal cartilage grafts. The patient developed nasal tip incisional discharge 1…

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Recurrent BCC of the External Ear After Radiation

HISTORY A 77-year-old man presents with 5-year history of infiltrative basal cell carcinoma (BCC) of the left ear fossa triangularis and root of helix. The area was originally treated with four weeks of radiation in 2014, complicated by temporary ulceration and healing with adhesion. When the area developed crusting a couple of years later, the…

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Trichoepithelioma

HISTORY 33-year-old woman presents with 3-year history of slowly growing nasal tip lesion biopsied as a trichoepithelioma. Mohs excision was performed creating a 0.6 cm defect. It was reconstructed with a lateral nasal island flap. DISCUSSION Trichoepithelioma is a benign basaloid follicular neoplasm (arising from a pilosebaceous unit). Its basal cell proliferation is differentiated from…

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Scleromyxedema Cutaneous Lesions

HISTORY 87-year-old man with underlying scleromyxedema and history of multiple basal cell carcinomas presents with a left earlobe nodule. Biopsy revealed this to be a lesion with benign spindle cell proliferation in vague concentric whorls with associated dermal fibrosis and chronic inflammation. This was a typical scleromyxedema lesion presenting within the fatty earlobe and not…

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Upper Chest BCC PNI

HISTORY 53-year-old man presents with a 4-year-history of BCC of upper chest.  The tumor measured 12 cm x 6 cm. Wide local excision with 1 cm margins on 11/10/2017 found clear margins and perineural invasion. The nerves up to 0.23 mm were involved by tumor. The final defect was 13.5 cm x 8.3 cm.  …

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Multiple Nasal Basal Cell Carcinomas

HISTORY 81-year-old man presents with 7-month history of two nasal tip and right nasal ala BCC’s. All three lesions were treated with 2 adjoining SRT fields. The course began 1-8-18 and completed by 1-26-18 after 15 treatments. DISCUSSION This patient represents an excellent candidate for radiation therapy. Electron beam radiation therapy can be used with…

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Large Thigh BCC Treated with Radiation

HISTORY 92-year-old man presents with 15-year history of basal cell carcinoma on left thigh. The 9.3 cm x 8.6 cm superficial plaque was treated with electron beam radiotherapy completing 6000 cGy in 30 fractions on 3-13-2018. DISCUSSION The 6-week course of radiation was tolerated well by this patient. He had minimum oozing from previous biopsy…

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