SOLITARY BASAL-CELL CANCER IN A 10-YEAR-O LD BOY

It is rare for solitary basal cell cancer not to be associated with th e naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (NBCCS), xeroderma pigmentosum , an organoid nevus or X-ray therapy in children (to date 86 cases hav e been documented in the literature. Aetiologically, the tumours might be a forme fruste of the NBCCS or they might follow a somatic point m utation of keratinocytes. Up to now, data on the repair mechanism foll owing UV-induced DNA damage are not available in these patients. We re port on a 10-year-old boy with a solitary nodular basal cell cancer in the right malar region. Neither the patient's history nor the clinica l findings suggested a genetic disposition to development of the tumou r.