Basal cell carcinoma arising in a laparoscopic port site scar at the umbilicus [14]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 348-350

  Durrani, Amer J ^a   Miller, Roslyn J ^b   Davies, Michaela ^b  

^a ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; LETTER; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN INCISION; UMBILICUS;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; UMBILICUS;

EID: 21744447822     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000173546.88835.CB     Document Type: Letter

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