Basal cell carcinoma arising in scars: Late presentation 16 years after a midline sternotomy [12]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1297-1299

  Lau, Y S ^a   Banwell, P E ^a   Pay, A D ^a  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BURN SCAR; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SCAR; STERNOTOMY; SUN EXPOSURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; HEART SURGERY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SKIN TUMOR; STERNUM; TIME; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STERNUM; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 2342575721     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000110865.71201.A3     Document Type: Letter

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