Malignancies within rhinophyma: Report of three new cases and review of the literature

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 396-405

  Lazzeri, Davide ^a   Colizzi, Livio ^a   Licata, Giovanni ^b   Pagnini, Daniele ^c   Proietti, Agnese ^d   Alì, Greta ^d   Massei, Pietro ^c   Fontanini, Gabriella ^d   Pantaloni, Marcello ^a   Agostini, Tommaso ^b  

^a Hospital of Pisa   (Italy)

^b Dept of Clin Microbiol Lab   (Italy)

^c Hospital of Lucca   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acne; Basal cell carcinoma; Rhinophyma; Rosacea; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; ROSACEA; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; MALE; RHINOPHYMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84863722213     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-011-9802-0     Document Type: Review

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