cutaneous features
Last reviewed 01/2018
The cutaneous features of Gorlin's Syndrome are varied:
- basal cell carcinoma:
- often small in size
- may be pedunculated
- typically appear in early 20's
- may be crops of a few lesions or many hundreds
- predeliction for face and upper trunk areas
- pits in palmar surface of hand and plantar surface of foot:
- develop with age
- typically appear in 20's
- almost pathognomic of Gorlin's disease
- BCC may develop in these lesions in rare cases
- milia
- epidermoid cysts
- comedones
- palmar and plantar calcinosis