Bulletin du Cancer
MENUXeroderma pigmentosum: report of 6 cases in Dakar Volume 88, issue 2, Février 2001
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Service de dermatologie, BP 3001, Hôpital A.-Le Dantec, Dakar, Sénégal.
- Key words: xeroderma pigmentosum.
- Page(s) : 199-202
- Published in: 2001
We report 6 cases of black Senegalese boys with xeroderma pigmentosum. They were between 2 and 16 year-old and presented features of hypersensitivity to UV (keratosis, lentigines, poikilodermia and photophobia). Our cases were remarkable by the early occurrence of squamous cell and basal cell carcinoma located in photoexposed sites causing the death of 5 of them. Xeroderma pigmentosum must be considered as the first preneoplastic genodermatosis.