Abstract
Recently, single case reports were published from India, Romania, UK, and USA. Its rarity was stressed as well as the histological combination of both basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. The ages ranged from 71 to 86 years and most were females. Therefore, this paper reports the experience from a developing community in Nigeria with special reference to members of the Ibo ethnic group in whom the site of preponderance was the head and the sex was the female.
Highlights
Recent single case reports appeared in the literature from India [1], Romania [2], UK [3], and USA [4]
The author became the pioneer of such a pool established by the Government of the Eastern Region of Nigeria at Enugu
Having insisted on biopsies being sent with epidemiological data, and carefully keeping personal duplicates, the results in respect of basosquamous carcinoma of skin can be presented below in tabular form
Summary
Department of Pathology, Medical Foundation and Clinic, Nigeria Submission: December 18, 2018; Published: January 08, 2019 *Corresponding author: Wilson IB Onuigbo, Department of Pathology, Medical Foundation and Clinic, 8, Nsukka Lane, Enugu 400001, Nigeria
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