TY - JOUR ID - 243022 TI - A Rare Report of Lung Metastasis of the Common Non-Melanotic Skin Cancer JO - TANAFFOS (Respiration) JA - RSPR LA - en SN - 1735-0344 AU - Shafiepour, Mohsen AU - Kiani, Arda AU - Taghavi, Kimia AU - Seifi, Sharareh AU - Rezaie, Mitra Sadat AU - Hashemian, Seyed Mohammad Reza AU - Abedini, Atefeh AD - Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Tracheal Diseases Research Center, NRITLD, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Virology Research Center, NRITLD, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran AD - Clinical Tuberculosis center, NRITLD, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 17 IS - 1 SP - 62 EP - 65 KW - Basal cell carcinoma KW - Pulmonary KW - Lung metastasis KW - Metastatic basal cell carcinoma DO - N2 - Basal cell carcinoma is a common non-melanotic skin cancer with a prevalence of 74.5%–82.6% in the Iranian population. BCC rarely metastasizes. However, metastasis can cause significant morbidity. The prevalence of metastatic basal cell carcinoma varies between 0.0028% and 0.55% of all cases. We describe a case of lung metastasis of basal cell carcinoma of the scalp. UR - https://www.tanaffosjournal.ir/article_243022.html L1 - https://www.tanaffosjournal.ir/article_243022_ce22dd48212122910cdd44dbea8842f1.pdf ER -