Basal cell carcinoma in a hair transplant recipient site.
A basal cell carcinoma developed in the central scalp of a forty-one year old man at the recipient site of a hair transplant plug that was placed five years previously. The patient was never noted to have premalignant or other malignant skin lesions. Although the relationship is probably coincidental, medico-legal factors dictate consideration of a cause and effect relationship.
D000328:Adult; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006197:Hair / Q000637:transplantation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012535:Scalp / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*