Resumen

NEYRA BARROS, Rafael Manuel; GUERRA MACIAS, Iliana  y  PRIETO GARCIA, Magdalena. Atypical fibroxanthoma in an elderly. MEDISAN [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.3, pp. 486-493.  Epub 12-Jun-2020. ISSN 1029-3019.

The case report of a 72 years old man who presented a dorsal cutaneous neoplasm is described, reason why he was assisted in a multidisciplinary way in 2 hospitals from Santiago de Cuba. Given the preoperative diagnosis of skin basal cell epithelioma the tumor was removed in an ambulatory way. The result of the pathologic study didn't confirm this diagnosis, but it corroborated that it was an atypical fibroxanthoma. With the wide surgical margins of security the patient's cure was achieved.

Palabras clave : elderly; skin cancer; atypical fibroxanthoma; skin basal cell epithelioma.

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