Xeroderma Pigmentosum - a disfiguring disease: Single patient with 5 simultaneous tumors on face.

We present a case of diagnosed xeroderma pigmentosum in a 25 year old male who presented with multiple lesions and non-healing ulcers on face. Four surgical specimens from left lower eyelid, chin, right cheek and upper lip were taken for histopathological diagnosis. Microscopic examination revealed five different tumors from biopsies of these sites - specimen from right cheek revealed two morphologically distinct tumors. The tumors include basosquamous carcinoma, nodular basal cell carcinoma, adenoid basal cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma and cavernous hemangioma. PMID: 30992739 [PubMed]
Source: Oman Medical Journal - Category: Middle East Health Tags: Oman Med J Source Type: research