
Site: Nose
Diagnosis: Pigmented basal cell carcinoma
Sex: F
Age: 45
Type: Heine
Submitted By: Stelios Minas
Description: Large gray-blue ovoid nests and leaf like areas.
History:
This 45-year-old woman had a 2 year history of a nodule on the nose. Initially the lesion was slow growing, but over the last 6 months it grew more quickly. The lesion was excised. Pathology revealed a pigmented basal cell carcinoma.