Volume 18, Number 3, September 2006
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Nobuyoshi Mizukawa,1 Toshio Sugahara,2 Shin Takagi,2 Takaaki Ueno,2 Joji Fukunaga,2 Hitoshi Nagatsuka3
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Reconstructive Surgery, Okayama University Dental Hospitals, 2Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Reconstructive Surgery, and 3Department of Oral Pathology and Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Dentistry, Okayama, Japan
Abstract
Microcystic adnexal carcinoma is a rare tumour, first described in 1982. Prior to the recognition of microcystic adnexal carcinoma, instances of unusual basal cell carcinoma, sweat gland carcinoma, and trichofolliculoma had been reported. Microcystic adnexal carcinomas are slow growing and demonstrate aggressive local behaviour and a high recurrence rate. The mainstay of treatment is surgical excision using frozen sections to check the peripheral and deep margins. This report is of a microcystic adnexal carcinoma in the mental region of a 69-year-old woman.
Key words: Carcinoma, skin appendage, Chin, Jaw
Asian J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2006;18:215-218.
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