Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Patient with Vitiligo of Photo-covered Skin

Ultraviolet radiation is an important risk factor for the development of skin cancers. Melanin is known to protect the skin against harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation. Hence, vitiligo patients are at higher risk of developing such malignancies. But few reports of occurrence of skin cancers in...

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Autores principales: Gangopadhyay, Asok, Das, Jayanta Kumar, Agarwal, Amit Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24700942
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.127685
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author Gangopadhyay, Asok
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description Ultraviolet radiation is an important risk factor for the development of skin cancers. Melanin is known to protect the skin against harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation. Hence, vitiligo patients are at higher risk of developing such malignancies. But few reports of occurrence of skin cancers in vitiligo lesions suggest that their occurrence in vitiligo is rare. There are reports of development of Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in vitiligo lesions, following long-term Psoralen and Ultraviolet-A (PUVA) therapy. But there are no reports of occurrence of SCC in a vitiligo patch located in photo-covered area. We describe a patient with SCC in a vitiligo patch present in photo-covered skin.
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spelling pubmed-39696832014-04-03 Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Patient with Vitiligo of Photo-covered Skin Gangopadhyay, Asok Das, Jayanta Kumar Agarwal, Amit Kumar Indian J Dermatol Case Report Ultraviolet radiation is an important risk factor for the development of skin cancers. Melanin is known to protect the skin against harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation. Hence, vitiligo patients are at higher risk of developing such malignancies. But few reports of occurrence of skin cancers in vitiligo lesions suggest that their occurrence in vitiligo is rare. There are reports of development of Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in vitiligo lesions, following long-term Psoralen and Ultraviolet-A (PUVA) therapy. But there are no reports of occurrence of SCC in a vitiligo patch located in photo-covered area. We describe a patient with SCC in a vitiligo patch present in photo-covered skin. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3969683/ /pubmed/24700942 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.127685 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Patient with Vitiligo of Photo-covered Skin
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title_fullStr Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Patient with Vitiligo of Photo-covered Skin
title_full_unstemmed Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Patient with Vitiligo of Photo-covered Skin
title_short Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Patient with Vitiligo of Photo-covered Skin
title_sort squamous cell carcinoma in a patient with vitiligo of photo-covered skin
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24700942
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.127685
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