title: Multiple basal cell carcinomas in the pubic area in a patient with skin type IV: case report.
abstract: Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of malignant cutaneous neoplasm in humans, being more frequently located in exposed areas and in fair-skinned individuals. It is reported the case of a 62-yearold female patient, brown-skinned ,with multiple lesions with edges slightly raised, reddish-brown in the pubic region, whose clinical diagnosis was pigmented basal cell carcinoma, confirmed by histopathology. Immunohistochemistry of the lesions was negative for the detection of papilloma virus.
authors: Santa Casa de Misericordia Hospital - Vitoria (ES), Brazil. crisbanhos@hotmail.com
authors: Cristiani Banhos
authors: CB
authors: Ferreira
authors: Lucia Martins
authors: LM
authors: Diniz
authors: João Basilio de
authors: JB
authors: Souza Filho
mesh_terms: D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006223:Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*