Archives of Pathology ¹3 2009

N. M. Anichkov1, I. N. Chuprov2, S. V. Klyuchareva3
1I. I. Mechnikov Saint Petersburg State Medical Academy, 195067, Saint Petersburg; 2Department of Pathologic Anatomy, Saint Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies, 191015 Saint Petersburg; 3Department of Dermatology, Saint Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies, 195067, Saint Petersburg

A case of multiple skin basal-cell carcinoma (Gorlin-Goltz syndrome)

The authors describe a case of the rare disorder - multiple basal-cell carcinoma (BCC) (Gorlin-Goltz syndrome) with 124 tumors in one patient. Various separate nodes of BCC had clinical features which corresponded to the morphology. The infiltrative BCC arose de novo or after the transformation of nodular BCC. It presented as the most aggressive tumor.

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