Penetrating scalp Marjolin's ulcer involving bone and dura mater in a Nigerian hospital: Case report and literature review

Burns

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Onah, Ifeanyi I ^a   Okwor, Bismark ^a   Onuigbo, Wilson I B ^a  

^a National Orthopaedic Hospital   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN;

ARTICLE; BONE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MARJOLIN ULCER; METASTASIS; NIGERIA; SCALP; SCHOOL CHILD; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOPSY; BURNS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHILD; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SKIN ULCER; SKULL; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950516514     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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