Tuesday 12 February 2019

ORAL PATHOLOGY- CARCINOMA CUNICULATUM



This slow growing variant of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) has features of both squamous and verrucous varaiants of SCC. A common form in the skin but rarely seen in the oral mucosa. Histopathologically displays the " Rabbit Burrow"  branching keratin filled crypts, that give it the name cuniculatus derived from cuniculus(small tunnel or burrow).



Mandana Donoghue [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons