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Basal cell carcinoma with monster cells
D M Elston1, W F Bergfeld, N Petroff
1Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio.
Journal of Cutaneous Pathology
|February 1, 1993
Abstract:
A case of basal cell carcinoma with "monster cells" is reported. Clinically, the lesion presented as a red nodule on the forearm of a 58-year-old male. The histologic picture was striking, with large, "monstrous" nuclei scattered throughout a well defined nodule. Basal cell carcinoma with monster cells appears to represent a histologic variant of nodular basal cell carcinoma. The prognostic significance of the monster cells remains to be established.