Fatal cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma with extension through the maxillary sinus and orbit into the brain.
Cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas may cause death by metastasis or by local extension. We describe a deeply invasive cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma that caused death by direct extension into the brain.
Simon
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Department of Pathology, Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Sims
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Elston
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D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008444:Maxillary Sinus Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*