Úlcera de Marjolin

Ulcère de Marjolin

L’ulcère de Marjolin désigne la transformation maligne d’une cicatrice de brûlure ou de toute autre plaie ou ulcération chronique. Rare, son incidence est estimée à 2% des cas. Le type histologique prédominant reste le carcinome épidermoïde (75%). Les membres en particulier les plis de flexion sont le siège préférentiel en raison des contraintes mécaniques exposant à la ré-ulcération. La périod...

Squamous cell carcinoma in a laparostomy scar.

Cicatrização anormal pode levar à transformação maligna. Carcinoma de células escamosas de uma ferida crônica não cicatrizada é chamada de úlcera de Marjolin, e este processo é geralmente associado com queimaduras. Úlcera de Marjolin, em oposição ao câncer da pele espontâneo, é mais provável que ocorra nas extremidades, e tem padrão altamente agressivo, com 27,5% de pacientes desenvolvendo metá...

L’ulcère de Marjolin: complication rare et tardive des escarres chez un patient paraplégique

Pan African Medical Journal. 2017; 27:117 doi:10.11604/pamj.2017.27.117.11140 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/27/117/full/ © Bahija Lemrhari et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by...

Marjolin ulcer in a surgical scar.

Jean-nicolas Marjolin: Destined to Be Forgotten?

JEAN-NICOLAS MARJOLIN is described in the Dictionna-.re Encyclopedique des Sciences Medicales1 as one of those figures who are quickly forgotten: his work, it says, was not for posterity. But eponymous fame is capricious and today the British Medical Dictionary2 has an entry defining Marjolin's ulcer as a 'squamous carcinoma developing in a chronic benign ulcer, e.g. a varicose ulcer, an old un...