Basal Cell Carcinomas Developing in a Case of Medulloblastoma Associated with Gorlin's Syndrome

Abstract

We report a case of a 20-year-old male with Gorlin's syndrome (nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome), developing multiple basal cell carcinomas within irradiation fields 10 years after the treatment of medulloblastoma.

Key Words:

• Gorlin's syndrome
• medulloblastoma
• multiple basal cell carcinomas

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Notes on contributors

I. Lale Atahan

Joyce Laing works in the Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, Playfield House, Cupar, Fife, and is a Consultant Art Therapist to Psychiatric Hospitals and Prisons and Chairwoman of the Scottish Society of Art and Psychology.

Dr Niculescu Dan, Centrul de Reumatologie, Str. J. (F)ucick no. 5, Bucuresti, Romania

Anni Vilppula, Department of Medicine, Paimio Hospital, Preitilä, Finland

G. Tausch, Department of Rheumatology, Municipal Hospital of Vienna-Lainz, Wolkersbergenstraße 1, A-1130Wien, Austria

Dr Guido Gothoni, Medica Pharmaceutical Company Ltd., P.O. Box 325, SF-00101 Helsinki 10, Finland

A. Elman, Dept. of Rheumatology, Karolinska sjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

Hannu Paitälä, Rheumatism Foundation Hospital, Heinola, Finland

Jonas Jonsson, National Bacteriological Laboratory, S-105 21 Stockholm, Sweden