Unusual explosive growth of a squamous cell carcinoma of the scalp after electrical burn injury and subsequent coverage by sequential free flap vascular connection - A case report

BMC Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Horch, Raymund E ^a   Stark, G Bjoern ^b   Beier, Justus P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN SCAR; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRIC BURN; EXCISION; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SCALP TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ULCER; WOUND HEALING; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCAR; SKIN TUMOR; SKIN ULCER; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME;

BURNS, ELECTRIC; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CICATRIX; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN ULCER; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 28844492058     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-5-150     Document Type: Article

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