Bilateral facial squamous cell carcinoma in an 18-month-old girl with xeroderma pigmentosum

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the skin usually occurs in older patients and commonly develops from actinic keratosis. Patients with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) are highly sensitive to ultraviolet radiation and prone to develop multiple skin malignancies and can acquire SCC at an early age. We repo...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of postgraduate medicine (Bombay) 2005-04, Vol.51 (2), p.128-130
Hauptverfasser:	Alymlahi, Elkhalil, Dafiri, R
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - complications Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - diagnosis Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - surgery Case studies Facial Neoplasms - complications Facial Neoplasms - diagnosis Facial Neoplasms - surgery Female Health aspects Humans Infant Skin cancer Squamous cell carcinoma Teenage girls Xeroderma Pigmentosum - complications
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Zusammenfassung:	Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the skin usually occurs in older patients and commonly develops from actinic keratosis. Patients with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) are highly sensitive to ultraviolet radiation and prone to develop multiple skin malignancies and can acquire SCC at an early age. We report an 18-month-old girl with XP who presented clinically because of a bilateral facial skin mass that was biopsied and found to be SCC. To our knowledge, the case we describe represents the youngest XP patient to have developed facial SCC.
ISSN:	0022-3859 0972-2823