A rare case of facial skin multicentric squamous cell carcinoma

Abstract

Skin squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is commonly seen in people with fair skin, high exposure to sunlight, and long-term smokers. A 48-year-old male patient was admitted to our clinic with the complaint of nonhealing wounds in many foci on his face. On physical examination, there were ulcerovegetative lesions of 5¥5 cm on the right zygoma, 2¥3 cm on the right lateral of the nasal dorsum, 2¥2 cm on the left zygoma, and two 1x1 cm on the medial of the left zygoma. The patient, whose histopathological examination was reported as SCC, underwent multiple SCC excision, reconstruction with a split-thickness skin graft taken from the anterior thigh region, right superficial parotidectomy, and right level 1-2 neck dissection. The lesions of our patient, who was in the 12th postoperative month, healed close to normal anatomy, and no recurrence has yet been found in the head and neck. In this article, a case of multicentric SCC in the head and neck region is presented with the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up process, together with the current literature.