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...

BACKGROUND Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), also known as Marjolin ulcer, is a rare complication of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS). Metastatic SCC from HS typically involves the axial skeleton or abdominopelvic viscera. Metastatic disease to the lungs is a rare phenomenon with only three reported cases of lung parenchyma. We present a biopsy proven case of metastatic SCC to the pleura from gluteal...

Abstract Jean-Nicolas Marjolin was born in Ray-sur-Saone, eastern France, 1780. His education sponsored by his mother as father had died when he 1 year old, leaving them impoverished. He studied Medicine at The Commercy Hospital, north-eastern before left for Hôtel-Dieu hospital Paris where met Guillaume Dupuytren, who recruited him to the ‘Societe Anatomique’, a society created promote study o...