Non-healing Wound After Mastopexy: Cautionary Case Report for a Unique Source of a Marjolin’s Ulcer of the Breast

Marjolin’s ulcers (MUs) represent a unique degenerative process that results in malignancy. Classically, sites of previous burns are associated with MU but, in fact, any non-healing wound has been found to be a potential source of degeneration. Malignancies that arise include typically cutaneous squ...

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Autores principales: Patel, Harsh, Samaha, Yasmina, Basho, Reva, Srinivasa, Dhivya R, Chung, Alice P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Plastic Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8478128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34646591
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17504
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author Patel, Harsh
Samaha, Yasmina
Basho, Reva
Srinivasa, Dhivya R
Chung, Alice P
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description Marjolin’s ulcers (MUs) represent a unique degenerative process that results in malignancy. Classically, sites of previous burns are associated with MU but, in fact, any non-healing wound has been found to be a potential source of degeneration. Malignancies that arise include typically cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), but SCC at the site of a previous wound is a more aggressive, lethal variant. This report represents a cautionary case of the management of an open wound and highlights a previously undescribed etiology of an MU in the breast.
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spelling pubmed-84781282021-10-12 Non-healing Wound After Mastopexy: Cautionary Case Report for a Unique Source of a Marjolin’s Ulcer of the Breast Patel, Harsh Samaha, Yasmina Basho, Reva Srinivasa, Dhivya R Chung, Alice P Cureus Plastic Surgery Marjolin’s ulcers (MUs) represent a unique degenerative process that results in malignancy. Classically, sites of previous burns are associated with MU but, in fact, any non-healing wound has been found to be a potential source of degeneration. Malignancies that arise include typically cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), but SCC at the site of a previous wound is a more aggressive, lethal variant. This report represents a cautionary case of the management of an open wound and highlights a previously undescribed etiology of an MU in the breast. Cureus 2021-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8478128/ /pubmed/34646591 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17504 Text en Copyright © 2021, Patel et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Plastic Surgery
Patel, Harsh
Samaha, Yasmina
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Srinivasa, Dhivya R
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Non-healing Wound After Mastopexy: Cautionary Case Report for a Unique Source of a Marjolin’s Ulcer of the Breast
title Non-healing Wound After Mastopexy: Cautionary Case Report for a Unique Source of a Marjolin’s Ulcer of the Breast
title_full Non-healing Wound After Mastopexy: Cautionary Case Report for a Unique Source of a Marjolin’s Ulcer of the Breast
title_fullStr Non-healing Wound After Mastopexy: Cautionary Case Report for a Unique Source of a Marjolin’s Ulcer of the Breast
title_full_unstemmed Non-healing Wound After Mastopexy: Cautionary Case Report for a Unique Source of a Marjolin’s Ulcer of the Breast
title_short Non-healing Wound After Mastopexy: Cautionary Case Report for a Unique Source of a Marjolin’s Ulcer of the Breast
title_sort non-healing wound after mastopexy: cautionary case report for a unique source of a marjolin’s ulcer of the breast
topic Plastic Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8478128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34646591
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17504
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