Abstract

Abstract

Basosquamous cell carcinoma (metatypic carcinoma, BSCC) of the dermis is a rare clinocopathologic entity which shows basaloid cell and squamous cell carcinoma properties. Even if basosquamous cell carcinoma is conceded a variant of basaloid cell carcinoma, it has a higher metastatic potential than basaloid cell carcinoma. There is no publication which evaluates metastasectomy of the pulmonary metastases of basosquamous cell carcinoma. In this study a 67 year old male patient, who had been operated on for basosquamous cell carcinoma on the skin of his nose and also underwent right thoracotomy and wedge resection for the metastatic lesion on his right lung after resection of the primary tumour, was presented in the light of the current literature because of its rarity. (Tur Toraks Der 2011; 12: 36-8)