PUVA-Induced Skin Cancer in Dark-Skin Patient: A Case Report | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||
| Article 21, Volume 70, Issue 11, January 2018, Pages 1990-1991 PDF (322 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| Authors | ||
| Yousef Binamer* 1; Ahmed Aljaber2 | ||
| 1Department of Dermatology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital &Research Centre, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia | ||
| 2Medical intern, King Saud bin Abdulaziz university for health sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Non-melanoma skin cancer is reported to be a cancer with highest prevalence in the world. Different risk factors have been identified, e.g., Genetic factors, skin-type, ethnicity, and iatrogenic. The main iatrogenic factors are radiation and drugs, mainly immunosuppressive medications, and oral psoralen and ultraviolet-A (PUVA). It is known in the literature that exposure to more than 250 sessions of PUVA could be a risk for developing skin cancer. However, it was reported in fair skin patients. Herein, we report for the first time, a PUVA-induced basal cell cancer in a type-4 skin patient after receiving 400 sessions. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| PUVA; basal cell carcinoma; skin cancer | ||
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