Basal cell carcinoma of the sole: possible association with the shoe-fitting fluoroscope.

Basal cell carcinoma of the sole is very rare. This report describes an occurrence in which a basal cell carcinoma may have developed in relation to radiation exposure from a shoe-fitting fluoroscope. The obvious limitation is that there is no record or means to measure any amount of radiation that a person may have received from this primitive fluoroscope. We conclude that radiation very likely did induce this lesion in this individual.