Therapeutic approach to a patient with nodular supralabial basal cell carcinoma: case report.

Ninoska Porras Kusmanic; Frances Norris Squirrell

Volume : V, Issue : IX, September - 2016

Therapeutic approach to a patient with nodular supralabial basal cell carcinoma: case report.

Ninoska Porras Kusmanic, Frances Norris Squirrell

Abstract :

Background: Currently available therapeutic arsenal for the treatment of basal cell carcinoma is very oad. The most effective are surgical treatment and radiotherapy, the first being with the lowest rate of recurrence. Case report: Female patient, 97 years old, without significant morbid history, referred a story of a year of evolution characterized by the appearance of supralabial nodular lesion, 1.4 cm in diameter. It was proposed as a diagnostic hypothesis : nodular basal cell carcinoma. Biopsy of the lesion was performed, which confirmed the existence of basal cell carcinoma, nodular and adenoid type, exophytic, skin infiltrative variant committed to reticular dermis. Patient course without recurrence.Discussion: In the case of this patient, the lesion was in a region of a esthetic importance, which made more complex surgical approach. Still, it was possible to completely remove the tumor with lower margin of 5 mm.