Excellent response of basal cell carcinomas and pigmentary changes in xeroderma pigmentosum to imiquimod 5% cream

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Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is an autosomal recessive disease in which patients have a 1000-fold increased risk of developing cutaneous neoplasms. Management of patients with XP is a difficult therapeutic challenge as they usually present with many cutaneous malignancies and continue to form skin tumours at a high rate. We describe a 19-year-old woman with XP who had been previously treated with many different...

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