Kim Se Hoon, Lee Min Geol, Lee Kwang Gil
Department of Pathology, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, 162 Ilsan-dong, Wonju, Kangwon-do 220-701, Korea.
Yonsei Med J. 2003 Jun 30;44(3):523-5. doi: 10.3349/ymj.2003.44.3.523.
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) may exhibit diverse differentiation. In BCC with matrical differentiation, islands of shadow cells, which are characteristic of a pilomatricoma, are located within the tumor. This is an extremely rare variant and to our knowledge, only two review articles and one case report have been published. We recently experienced a case of BCC with matrical differentiation in a 45-year-old Caucasian male. This tumor should be differentially diagnosed from other tumors, particularly a pilomatricoma and pilomatrix carcinoma.
