Posts Tagged ‘Basal Cell Carcinoma’
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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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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Shave excision of Lower Extremity Carcinomas
HISTORY 67-year-old woman presents with 3 BCCs on right lower extremity diagnosed on shave biopsies. Superficial shave excisions of the carcinomas left close margins within 0.1 mm. Second set of shave excisions found no residual carcinoma. DISCUSSION Lower leg skin carcinomas are often superficial and can be treated with superficial treatments. This patient’s…
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Chin Reconstruction 2
Patient presented with Basal cell carcinoma of left chin, basal cell carcinoma of cheek. Mohs excision performed by Dr. Gregory Bartlow at SCARS Center. Reconstruction performed by Dr. Simon Mardorsky at SCARS Center.
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FIELD CANCERIZATION WITH BASAL CELL CARCINOMA
2012 Radiation Simulation Persistent cheek recurrence of BCC at edge of flap recent CT showing resected right temporal bone with overlying flap and evidence of deep tumor HISTORY This 69-year-old man presented with greater than 25-year history of multiple basal cell carcinomas of the face and neck. His most problematic cancer has been in the…
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MEDIAL CANTHUS BASAL CELL CARCINOMA FOLLOW UP
HISTORY 91 year old man presented with a recurrent right medial canthus BCC that was previously treated with 45 days of radiation (SRT at Hoag Hospital). Biopsy showed infiltrative sclerosing basal cell carcinoma with focal perineural invasion. MRI in December of 2016 showed the mass was fixed on the lamina papyracea adjacent to the medial…
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Red Light PDT Approval Process
We at Skin Cancer and Reconstructive Surgery Center wanted to upgrade our Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) treatment of AK’s and superficial BCC by switching from the Blu-U light to a red light source. Red light spectrum has been shown to be a deeper penetrating light for photodynamic therapy and, thus, has gained greater worldwide acceptance –…
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