Oram Y, Orengo I, Alford E, Green L K, Rosen T, Netscher D T
Department of Dermatology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX.
J Am Acad Dermatol. 1994 Nov;31(5 Pt 2):916-20. doi: 10.1016/s0190-9622(94)70259-4.
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC), the most common skin cancer in the United States, is locally invasive but has a low risk of metastasis. BCC is rare in black patients but, regardless of racial origin, most BCC occurs on sun-exposed areas. We describe a 67-year-old black man with a large BCC on the hairy scalp, a relatively sun-protected area, that metastasized to the spine. To our knowledge, this is the first description of a black patient with development of metastatic BCC on an otherwise normal scalp.
