1. Non-healing Wound After Mastopexy: Cautionary Case Report for a Unique Source of a Marjolin’s Ulcer of the Breast
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Dhivya R. Srinivasa, Reva Basho, Yasmina Samaha, Harsh Patel, and Alice P Chung
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Open wounds ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Breast surgery ,General Engineering ,Mastopexy ,Plastic Surgery ,Marjolin's ulcer ,breast surgery ,medicine.disease ,Malignancy ,Dermatology ,stomatognathic diseases ,breast cancer ,Breast cancer ,Oncology ,General Surgery ,medicine ,Etiology ,marjolin's ucler ,Potential source ,wound management ,wound reconstruction ,business - Abstract
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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- 2021
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