Basal Cell Carcinoma Arising from a Port Wine Stain

Year 2025, Volume: 32 Issue: 3, 240 - 243, 09.09.2025

Yunus Başar , Baran Can İnce , Enver Arpaci

https://doi.org/10.17343/sdutfd.1656134

Abstract

Objective: In this study, we present the diagnosis, clinical approach, and treatment process of BCC developing from the PWS background.
Material and Methods: This study is a case report of a patient who applied to our clinic in March 2023.
Results: Most of the BCCs appear in people over the age of 50 and those who have a long exposure to the sun. It’s possible to cure it with local wide surgical excision and adjuvant treatment. It has been documented in case reports that this phenomenon arises from PWS, which is a congenital vascular malformation.
Conclusions: Topical or radiation therapy that we use while treating various skin diseases can also increase the risk of BCC. The following presentation outlines the approach and treatment algorithm for BCC developing on the former known PWS.

Keywords

Basal cell carcinoma , hemangioma , port wine strain , skin tumor

Ethical Statement

All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.

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