A Case of Cystic Basal Cell Carcinoma Which Shows a Homogenous BlueBlack Area under Dermatoscopy.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Skin Cancer Volume 2011, Article ID 450472, 4 pages doi:10.1155/2011/450472 Case Report A Case of Cystic Basal Cell Carcinoma Which Shows a Homogenous Blue/Black Area under Dermatoscopy Akihiro Yoneta,1 Kohei Horimoto,1 Keiko Nakahashi,1 Satoru Mori,1 Kazuo Maeda,2 and Toshiharu Yamashita1 1 Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, South 1, West 16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan 2 Otaru Dermatology Clinic, Otaru 047-0032, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Akihiro Yoneta, yonetaa@sapmed.ac.jp Received 30 June 2010; Revised 28 August 2010; Accepted 6 September 2010 Academic Editor: Daniela Massi Copyright © 2011 Akihiro Yoneta et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin tumor and contains several different histopathological types. Here, we report a case of cystic basal cell carcinoma, which is relatively rare and might be clinically misdiagnosed. A dermatoscopic examination of the case revealed a homogenous blue/black area usually not seen in BCC. We reviewed 102 BCC cases resected and diagnosed at Sapporo Medical University Hospital between April 2005 and March 2010. Among them, only three were the cystic type. 1. Case Report 2. Discussion An 80-year-old woman with a nodular lesion on her right Basal cell carcinoma is a slowly growing malignant epithelial breast was referred to our outpatient clinic in January 2010 skin tumor predominantly affecting middle-aged and