TY - JOUR
KW - Amputation
KW - Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
KW - Female
KW - Foot Diseases
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Melanoma
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Nigeria
KW - Skin
KW - Skin Neoplasms
KW - Skin Ulcer
AU - Majoroh T O
AU - Imongan W I
AB - <p>Three cases presenting clinically with carcinomata developing from long standing plantar ulcers are presented. Intra operational histopathological examination confirmed two cases of squamous cell carcinoma and one case of malignant melanoma. Two of the patients had developed distant metastases in the brain, chest and regional lymph nodes at presentation. All had below knee amputation. The regional lymph nodes were not interfered with in any of them. One finally died, one was discharged home fully fit while the third's clinical condition has been deteriorating.</p>
BT - Tropical and geographical medicine
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3227561?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1988 Oct
IS - 4
J2 - Trop Geogr Med
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Three cases presenting clinically with carcinomata developing from long standing plantar ulcers are presented. Intra operational histopathological examination confirmed two cases of squamous cell carcinoma and one case of malignant melanoma. Two of the patients had developed distant metastases in the brain, chest and regional lymph nodes at presentation. All had below knee amputation. The regional lymph nodes were not interfered with in any of them. One finally died, one was discharged home fully fit while the third's clinical condition has been deteriorating.</p>
PY - 1988
SP - 365
EP - 8
T2 - Tropical and geographical medicine
TI - Carcinoma in plantar ulcers of leprosy patients.
VL - 40
SN - 0041-3232
ER -