Rhinophyma With Carcinomatous Degeneration

Malignancies Within Rhinophyma: Report of Three New Cases and Review of the Literature

“…This explains the high number of incidental diagnoses of tumors associated with rhinophymatous tissue reported in the literature. Interestingly, in only three cases, including our series, was the medical history of the patient positive for previous facial skin tumors [9,13], although these data were not always available.…”

“…In 19 cases information about sex was not available [8-14, 20, 25]. Interestingly, there was little prevalence of rhinophyma-associated malignancies that were diagnosed during preoperative clinical examination (n = 22) [12,14,16,19,21,23,25,26,28,29,31] over those detected incidentally during histological evaluation (n = 19) [11-15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33]; in five cases information was not available from the article [8][9][10][11]20].…”

“…They described a case of a patient with rhinophyma in whom histologic examination revealed five different tumors. Three decades later Novy [9] published a case of SCC arising in the context of rhinophyma, and Eisenklam [10] reported a malignant degeneration of rhinophymatous tissue without any other information. Rees [11], in his series of seven resected tumors among ten cases of managed rhinophymas, observed two cases of BCC.…”