[Spiegler carcinomas with associated symptoms. A new syndrome? (author's transl)].

The report concerns a southern Italian female patient of--at her death--67 years, who developed in 1975 within several months Spiegler basaliomas of the scalp. The tumors increased in size and number, and developed immediately to dedifferentiated, relapsing, metastasizing and finally lethal tumors which resisted to each therapy. Histologically only the structural rests of Spiegler basaliomas could be seen, but the cellular picture demonstrated completely dedifferentiated carcinomas.