Abstract
A 72-year-old male fisherman who referred to our department in October 1993, because of a two years history of erosion on the right Achilles' tendon and a fifty year history of porokeratosis over his entire body. The patient underwent total gastrectomy and splenectomy for gastric cancer at the age of 52, and also had high anterior resection of rectal cancer at the age of 55. A biopsy sample taken from the erosion on the right Achilles' tendon showed squamous cell carcinoma, and a sample taken from the erythematous skin on the right forearm showed soler keratosis. The patient arearted by surgical excision in November 1993 and has been free of disease up to the time of writing, April of 1995, a period of about sixteen momth.
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