RT Journal
A1 SCHARNAGEL IM, PACK GT
T1 MUltiple basal cell epitheliomas in a five year old child
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1949
FD May 1
VO 77
IS 5
SP 647
OP 651
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030040661007
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030040661007
AB THE OCCURRENCE of several hundred basal cell epitheliomas in a 5 year old child is of sufficient rarity to justify publication. In a group of 1,374 patients with basal cell epitheliomas previously studied at the Memorial Hospital,1 the average age was 61 years. Sixteen per cent of these neoplasms occurred in subjects more than 75 years old; in fact, 30 per cent of all tumors occurring in persons more than 75 years of age were basal cell epitheliomas. From this fact, it may be inferred that this tumor is the one most commonly seen in aged persons. One often observes the sudden and rapid growth of single hairs in old persons, indicating unusual activity of the hair follicle; a large number of these basal cell epitheliomas in persons more than 75 years of age are of the hair matrix type. Of the 1,374 patients with basal cell epitheliomas, the youngest