A giant squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the thoracic wall: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: We report a case of a 48-year-old white woman who presented with a huge cutaneous protruding tumor of the thoracic wall below her left breast. CASE PRESENTATION: The lesion was excised with clear margins from the adjacent skin, and subcutaneous tissue was left to heal with second intenti...

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Autores principales: Misiakos, Evangelos P., Damaskou, Vasileia, Koumarianou, Anna, Gouloumi, Alina-Roxani, Patapis, Paul, Zavras, Nick, Machairas, Anastasios
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5426016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28494816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1281-8
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author Misiakos, Evangelos P.
Damaskou, Vasileia
Koumarianou, Anna
Gouloumi, Alina-Roxani
Patapis, Paul
Zavras, Nick
Machairas, Anastasios
author_facet Misiakos, Evangelos P.
Damaskou, Vasileia
Koumarianou, Anna
Gouloumi, Alina-Roxani
Patapis, Paul
Zavras, Nick
Machairas, Anastasios
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description BACKGROUND: We report a case of a 48-year-old white woman who presented with a huge cutaneous protruding tumor of the thoracic wall below her left breast. CASE PRESENTATION: The lesion was excised with clear margins from the adjacent skin, and subcutaneous tissue was left to heal with second intention. A histological examination of the surgical specimen revealed a well-differentiated infiltrative cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Our patient neglected to attend our Oncological Department to receive chemotherapy. Today, 12 months after surgery, she is alive and without evidence of disease recurrence. CONCLUSIONS: Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma can reach a huge size if left untreated. Surgery is the primary mode of treatment, followed by chemotherapy if applicable.
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spelling pubmed-54260162017-05-12 A giant squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the thoracic wall: a case report and review of the literature Misiakos, Evangelos P. Damaskou, Vasileia Koumarianou, Anna Gouloumi, Alina-Roxani Patapis, Paul Zavras, Nick Machairas, Anastasios J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: We report a case of a 48-year-old white woman who presented with a huge cutaneous protruding tumor of the thoracic wall below her left breast. CASE PRESENTATION: The lesion was excised with clear margins from the adjacent skin, and subcutaneous tissue was left to heal with second intention. A histological examination of the surgical specimen revealed a well-differentiated infiltrative cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Our patient neglected to attend our Oncological Department to receive chemotherapy. Today, 12 months after surgery, she is alive and without evidence of disease recurrence. CONCLUSIONS: Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma can reach a huge size if left untreated. Surgery is the primary mode of treatment, followed by chemotherapy if applicable. BioMed Central 2017-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5426016/ /pubmed/28494816 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1281-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Case Report
Misiakos, Evangelos P.
Damaskou, Vasileia
Koumarianou, Anna
Gouloumi, Alina-Roxani
Patapis, Paul
Zavras, Nick
Machairas, Anastasios
A giant squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the thoracic wall: a case report and review of the literature
title A giant squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the thoracic wall: a case report and review of the literature
title_full A giant squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the thoracic wall: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr A giant squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the thoracic wall: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed A giant squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the thoracic wall: a case report and review of the literature
title_short A giant squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the thoracic wall: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort giant squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the thoracic wall: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5426016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28494816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1281-8
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