Malignant Degeneration of Scars

”Marjolin’s ulcer” is known as malignant degeneration of ancient burn scars, but both words can induce misdiagnosis. Malignant degeneration of scarring tissue can occur and can vary in its clinical, histological manifestations and its pre-existing skin lesions. We present several cases to substantia...

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Autores principales: Chiriac, Anca E, Betiu, Mircea, Brzezinski, Piotr, Di Martino Ortiz, Beatriz, Chiriac, Anca, Foia, Liliana, Azoicai, Doina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585506/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33116884
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CMAR.S274470
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author Chiriac, Anca E
Betiu, Mircea
Brzezinski, Piotr
Di Martino Ortiz, Beatriz
Chiriac, Anca
Foia, Liliana
Azoicai, Doina
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description ”Marjolin’s ulcer” is known as malignant degeneration of ancient burn scars, but both words can induce misdiagnosis. Malignant degeneration of scarring tissue can occur and can vary in its clinical, histological manifestations and its pre-existing skin lesions. We present several cases to substantiate our observations. ”Marjolin’s ulcer” is not synonym to an ulceration appeared on an old burn scar, transformed into squamous cell carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-75855062020-10-27 Malignant Degeneration of Scars Chiriac, Anca E Betiu, Mircea Brzezinski, Piotr Di Martino Ortiz, Beatriz Chiriac, Anca Foia, Liliana Azoicai, Doina Cancer Manag Res Case Series ”Marjolin’s ulcer” is known as malignant degeneration of ancient burn scars, but both words can induce misdiagnosis. Malignant degeneration of scarring tissue can occur and can vary in its clinical, histological manifestations and its pre-existing skin lesions. We present several cases to substantiate our observations. ”Marjolin’s ulcer” is not synonym to an ulceration appeared on an old burn scar, transformed into squamous cell carcinoma. Dove 2020-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7585506/ /pubmed/33116884 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CMAR.S274470 Text en © 2020 Chiriac et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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