[Fatal course of basalioma terebrans caused by brain abscess with brain compression and hemorrhagic anemia]

Report on a 79 years old female patient with a giant basalioma terebrans which has been growing for 15 years at the forehead. Its rapid exophytic and invasive growth at the final stage resulted in an extend destruction of the squamofrontal bone with infiltration into the dura mater. In consequence of this brain abscess with brain compression and a high grade hemorrhagic anemia inducing at last the fatal outcome were developed.