Marjolin ulcer: a case report

Beatriz Di Martino Ortiz,Lourdes Bolla De Lezcano,Oilda Knopfelmacher,Raquel Medina De Sosa,Martinez Braga Gabriela,Rosalba Riveros,Mirtha Rodríguez Masi

doi:10.7241/ourd.20141.12

Abstract

Marjolin’s ulcer is part of a group of neoplasms arising in chronic skin lesions, whether inflammatory or traumatic. Squamous cell carcinoma is the most frequently reported in the literature, it appears most frequently in burn scars, although also described in other types of lesions. We report a case of Marjolin ulcer in a male, native, 65 years old, from the Paraguayan Chaco, with antecedents of scar post trauma in youth.

Highlights

In 1828 Jean Nicholas Marjolin described the chronic burn ulcers called chancroid without establishing what this meant. It is because of Da Costa, by the year of 1903, the term Marjolin ulcer was used to describe the malignancy of a chronic ulcer that originates in the scar of a burn, and described association of this entity with other etiological factors as decubitus ulcers, osteomyelitis and immunization scars [1,2]
Based on clinical and histopathological findings is concluded as final diagnosis: Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Marjolin ulcer type
Nicholas Marjolin described the chronic ulcers burns, ulcers called chancroid without establishing what this meant. It is because of Da Costa, by the year 1903, the term Marjolin ulcer was used to describe the malignancy of a chronic ulcer that originates in the scar of a burn [1,2]

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Introduction

In 1828 Jean Nicholas Marjolin described the chronic burn ulcers called chancroid without establishing what this meant. It is because of Da Costa, by the year of 1903, the term Marjolin ulcer was used to describe the malignancy of a chronic ulcer that originates in the scar of a burn, and described association of this entity with other etiological factors as decubitus ulcers, osteomyelitis and immunization scars [1,2]. Admitted at the Indigenous Hospital with presumptive diagnosis of leishmaniasis. Final anatomopathological diagnosis: Squamous cell carcinoma of intermediate grade of differentiation (grade 2), ulcerated, infiltrates lateral margins of resection and respects the deep surgical margin of the biopsy. Based on clinical and histopathological findings is concluded as final diagnosis: Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Marjolin ulcer type

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