[Mediastinal adenopathies metastatic from a basocellular skin carcinoma]

Skin basocellular carcinoma is very frequent, and does not usually cause distant metastasis. However, a few cases of distal lymph node, pulmonary, bone metastasis have been described in the literature. In the present case, we report a basocellular mediastinal lymph node metastasis. Some precise histological characteristics described by Lattses must be present to admit authenticity of these metastasis. The treatment of such cases is based on surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy containing cisplatinum. However, the overall prognosis of these metastases remains poor.