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Solitary plantar basal cell carcinoma

An. bras. dermatol; 93 (3), 2018
Abstract: Basal cell carcinoma is the most frequent skin cancer, generally located in hair-bearing, sunlight-exposed areas. Basal cell carcinoma usually occurs on the head and neck, but very rarely on extra-facial locations. We report a case of a 65-year-old woman presenting with a solitary non-healing u...

Exuberant case of cutaneous metastasis of breast cancer

An. bras. dermatol; 93 (3), 2018
Abstract: Cutaneous metastasis is the main cause of morbidity and mortality of cancer patients, denoting a guarded prognosis. The clinical spectrum of the disease is broad and can mimic benign conditions. The diagnosis depends on thorough clinical examination and complementary exams, with emphasis on the...

Analysis of patients diagnosed with primary cutaneous melanoma in the last six years in Hospital Erasto Gaertner: epidemiologic profile

An. bras. dermatol; 93 (3), 2018
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Melanoma is one of the conditions with greater increase in incidence worldwide in recent decades. It is a skin cancer with potential high lethality and predominates in Caucasian adults. Treatment of primary cutaneous melanoma is essentially surgical and search for sentinel lymph no...

Dermoscopic features of clear cell acanthoma

An. bras. dermatol; 93 (3), 2018
Abstract: Clear cell acanthoma is an uncommon type of benign epithelial tumor. Typically, it is a solitary lesion found on the lower limbs. It presents as a nodule or small plaque with slow and well-defined growth. Diagnosis used to be clinical and histopathological, but the advent of dermoscopy has led ...

Hereditary melanoma: a five-year study of Brazilian patients in a cancer referral center - phenotypic characteristics of probands and pathological features of primary tumors

An. bras. dermatol; 93 (3), 2018
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Approximately five to 10% of all melanomas occur in families with hereditary predisposition and the main high-risk melanoma susceptibility gene is the CDKN2A. OBJECTIVES: To describe, after a five-years study, the clinical data of patients (probands) from familial melanoma kindred...

Erysipelatoid Carcinoma

SUMMARY Erysipelatoid Carcinoma (EC), also known as Inflammatory Metastatic Carcinoma, is a rare form of cutaneous metastasis, secondary to an internal malignancy, more often related to breast cancer. Clinically, the lesion has a well-marked, bound erythematous appearance, much like an infectious process...

Poroqueratosis de Mibelli. Presentación de caso
Mibelli's porokeratosis. Presentation of case

Rev. medica electron; 40 (2), 2018
RESUMEN Se realizó la presentación de dos pacientes con poroqueratosis de Mibelli por ser una dermatosis poco frecuente, por lo que debe ser de interés para los profesionales de diferentes disciplinas, bien por relacionarse con el cáncer de piel o con disímiles enfermedades. Los pacientes estudiados...

Síndrome de Sézary. Presentación de un caso
Sézary síndrome. Case presentation

Rev. medica electron; 40 (2), 2018
RESUMEN El síndrome de Sézary constituye la fase leucémica de la micosis fungoide caracterizado por eritrodermia, adenopatías superficiales y células atípicas en sangre. Predomina en los hombres con una proporción 2/1 respecto a las mujeres, y en las edades entre los 60 y 70 años de edad. La enfe...

Exuberant keloid scar associated with skin neoplasia

Linfoma NK/T extra nodal, tipo nasal, con compromiso cutáneo primario: reporte de un caso

Rev. chil. pediatr; 89 (2), 2018
INTRODUCCIÓN: El linfoma extranodal natural killer/célula T (NK/T) de tipo nasal, es una neoplasia poco frecuente, con una alta letalidad, caracterizada por destrucción ósea alrededor de los senos paranasales, el septum nasal u obstrucción de la vía aérea. Puede presentar compromiso primario de l...