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Central Manchester and Manchester Childrens' Hospital NHS Trust, Manchester, UK; The Dermatology Centre, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, UK.Issue Date
2008-06-19
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Treatment of giant basal cell carcinomas (GBCC) can pose several challenges. In such instances, use of routine and recommended treatments for sporadic, average size basal cell carcinomas (BCC) is suboptimal, impractical and often leads to treatment failure. Surgical excision of such large lesions results in marked intra and postoperative morbidity. While individually, photodynamic therapy, topical imiquimod and surgical excision are all established treatments for BCC, their combined use in the treatment of GBCC has not been explored. Three patients with histologically proven GBCC were sequentially treated with three cycles of metvix photodynamic therapy followed by a 6-week course of topical imiquimod. This led to a reduction in the size of these lesions which were subsequently excised.Citation
Sequential treatment of giant basal cell carcinomas. 2008: 1-5 J Plast Reconstr Aesthet SurgJournal
Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic SurgeryDOI
10.1016/j.bjps.2007.12.076PubMed ID
18572004Type
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nullae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.bjps.2007.12.076
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