A case of Bowen disease arising in seborrheic keratosis

Case Reports

Jingwen Tan, Xiaogang Chen, Xi

Abstract

Seborrheic Keratosis (SK) is one of the most benign epidermal neoplasms that rarely transform malignant. In this case, we report a SK malignant transformation to Bowen Disease (BD) with no relation to sun expose in China. The patient is a 72-year-old woman with a black skin lesion on her back. Clinical diagnosis of SK was made then a completely excision was performed. Histologically result showed a part of atypia keratinocytes with full-thickness in epidermis but no invasion to dermis arising in typical SK area. Thus, a pathologic diagnosis of BD arising in SK was made. This indicate that malignant transformation in SK can occur in the absence of sun expose.

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