Report on a case of primary basal cell carcinoma in the skin of the eyelid. Only bone metastases were detected after many local recurrences. The metastases were associated with myelophthisic anemia, leukoerythroblastosis in the peripheral blood and extramedullary hepatic hemopoiesis; these findings have not been reported before.
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