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ArticleCase reports in oncological medicine2018

Cutaneous Basal Cell Carcinoma with Lymph Node and Pulmonary Metastases.

Renate U Wahl, Claudio Cacchi, Albert Rübben

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Article in Case reports in oncological medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 40% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Renate U WahlDepartment of Dermatology, Euregional Skin Cancer Center, University Hospital of the RWTH-Aachen, Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1748-3689
Claudio CacchiDepartment of Pathology, University Hospital of the RWTH-Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
Albert RübbenDepartment of Dermatology, Euregional Skin Cancer Center, University Hospital of the RWTH-Aachen, Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2704-4754
RWTH Aachen University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin cancer. Metastatic BCC is an extraordinary rare finding observed in only 0.5% of all cases. Until the introduction of the small molecule hedgehog inhibitor vismodegib, patients with metastatic BCC were treated with chemotherapy, most frequently platinum-based with mixed responses to therapy. We present the case of a 55-year-old Caucasian man who suffered from BCC on his left arm with lymph node and pulmonary metastases. Sonic hedgehog blockade with vismodegib only induced a short remission, and the patient succumbed to the cancer.

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PMID29854516
PMCPMC5941720
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