Re: ‘Complete spontaneous regression in Merkel cell carcinoma’
✍ Scribed by Luis Junquera; Aintza Torre; Lorena Gallego
- Book ID
- 119201905
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 64 KB
- Volume
- 62
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1878-0539
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We report a 65-year-old man who presented with a Merkel cell carcinoma on his right ear, a small satellite nodule and regional lymph node metastases. No treatment was given because of his generally poor state of health. Spontaneous regression of all the lesions was observed within a month. Merkel ce
## Abstract ## __Background.__ Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC) is a rare neurendocrine tumor of cutaneous origin. ## __Methods and Results.__ A 79‐year‐old woman was seen with a neck lump and a lesion in the left nasal vestibule. Biopsy of the lesion revealed a primary neurendocrine MCC of the skin