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Sebaceous carcinoma of the nose: multi-focal presentation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

J. Murphy
Affiliation:
Department of ENT, Wexham Park and Heatherwood NHS Trust,UK.
N. R. Bleach
Affiliation:
Department of ENT, Wexham Park and Heatherwood NHS Trust,UK.
M. Thyveetil
Affiliation:
Department of Histopathology, Wexham Park and Heatherwood NHS Trust, UK.

Abstract

Sebaceous carcinoma of the nose is rare. Here the authors present a case of a 71-year-old man who presented with a mass in the right nasal vestibule. This was removed and a nasolabial flap used to reconstruct the defect. Histology revealed a sebaceous carcinoma. At follow-up, three months later, a new lesion had appeared in the opposite nostril which when removed proved to be a second sebaceous carcinoma. This multi-focal presentation in the nose has not been described in the literature before.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2004

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