Early-onset basal cell carcinoma.
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is a common skin cancer that is responsible for approximately 75% of non-melanoma skin cancers. BCC occurs on sunexposed areas in fair-skinned individuals; frequency increases with age and peaks in the seventh decade of life. Although it usually occurs in the elderly population, it has been reported in children as well. Here, we present a case of BCC in an eight-year-old child without any predisposing characteristics.
Department of Dermatology, Harran University Faculty of Medicine, Şanlıurfa, Turkey. enverturan@gmail.com.
Enver
E
Turan
Nurdan
N
Yurt
Yavuz
Y
Yeşilova
Gül
G
Türkçü
D001706:Biopsy; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013997:Time Factors