Abstract

Three cases of basal cell carcinoma appearing in the axillary region were studied together with 16 cases collected from the Japanese literature. The most frequent histopathological type was the superficial spreading type, followed by the solid type. Most lesions were either linear or bandlike in appearance, and the speed of proliferation of basal cell carcinoma in the axillary region was revealed to be faster than that of the face and the head published by Ono.