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Carcinoma basocelular

Última revisão: 8 Aug 2025
Última atualização: 20 Feb 2025

Resumo

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • pápulas com telangiectasias associadas
  • placas, nódulos e tumores com bordas arredondadas
  • pequenas crostas e feridas que não cicatrizam
  • crostas que não cicatrizam
  • pápulas e/ou placas peroladas
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Other diagnostic factors

  • metástases associadas a carcinoma basocelular (CBC) grande ou negligenciado
  • destruição local com lesão avançada
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Risk factors

  • Radiação ultravioleta (UV)
  • exposição ao sol
  • exposição a raios-X
  • exposição a arsênico
  • vias aberrantes de sinalização hedgehog
  • xeroderma pigmentoso
  • síndrome do carcinoma basocelular nevóide (Gorlin-Goltz)
  • história de câncer de pele não melanoma
  • sobreviventes de câncer na infância
  • receptor de transplante
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • biópsia para dermato-histopatologia
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Emerging tests

  • microscopia multifóton in vivo

Treatment algorithm

INITIAL

síndrome do carcinoma basocelular nevóide (Gorlin-Goltz)

ACUTE

subtipo de baixo risco em localização esteticamente favorável

subtipo de baixo risco em localizações esteticamente desfavoráveis

subtipo de alto risco

ONGOING

margens positivas no procedimento inicial

carcinomas basocelulares (CBCs) recorrentes complicados e/ou local não acessível a terapias cirúrgicas e tópicas

doença avançada

Contributors

Authors

Robert A. Schwartz, MD, MPH, DSc (Hon), MAE, FAAD, FRCP (Edin)
Robert A. Schwartz

Professor & Head

Dermatology

Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School

Newark

NJ

Disclosures

RAS declares that he has no competing interests. RAS is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Acknowledgements

Professor Robert A. Schwartz would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr James R. DeBloom and Dr Drazen Jukic, the previous contributors to this topic.

Disclosures

JRD and DJ declare that they have no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Richard Bull, BMBCh

Consultant Dermatologist

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

London

UK

Disclosures

RB declares that he has no competing interests.

David Cassarino, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

University of California

Los Angeles

CA

Disclosures

DC declares that he has no competing interests.

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Key articles

Nasr I, McGrath EJ, Harwood CA, et al; British Association of Dermatologists' Clinical Standards Unit. British Association of Dermatologists guidelines for the management of adults with basal cell carcinoma 2021. Br J Dermatol. 2021 Nov;185(5):899-920.Full text  Abstract

National Comprehensive Cancer Network. NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: basal cell skin cancer [internet publication].Full text

Kim JYS, Kozlow JH, Mittal B, et al; Work Group, Invited Reviewers. Guidelines of care for the management of basal cell carcinoma. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2018 Mar;78(3):540-59.Full text  Abstract

Thomson J, Hogan S, Leonardi-Bee J, et al. Interventions for basal cell carcinoma of the skin. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020 Nov 17;(11):CD003412.Full text  Abstract

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