ACTA FAC MED NAISS 2018;35(2):149-155

Case report

UDC: 616.5-006.6

DOI: 10.2478/afmnai-2018-0017

Giant Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report

Danijela Popović¹, Andrija Jović², Danica Tiodorović^1,2, Nataša Vidović³, Ivana Graovac²

¹Clinic of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Clinical Center Niš, Niš, Serbia
²University of Niš, Faculty of Medicine, Niš, Serbia
³Center for Pathology and Pathologiocal Anatomy, Clinical Center Niš, Serbia

summary

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common type of skin cancer and the most common type of tumor in the human population in general. Clinical variants of BCC include nodular, superficial, pigmented, morpheaform, cystic, metatypical types and fibroepithelioma of Pinkus. Giant BCC is a rare type of carcinoma, accounting for less than 1% of all cases of BCC. Most often they occur on the trunk. BCC belongs to the group of aggressive tumors, leading to the invasion of deeper tissues, and examples of metastasis of this type of tumor can be found in the reference literature. In this case report, we present a case of a 76-year-old female patient with a giant ulcerous form of basal cell carcinoma on the back.

Key words: basal cell carcinoma, giant, ulcer