A Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica é o órgão oficial divulgação da Sociedade (SBCP), tem como objetivo registrar a produção científica em Plástica, fomentar estudo, aperfeiçoamento e atualização dos profissionais especialidade.

background: marjolin's ulcer is a rare, aggressive condition that arises on chronic skin lesions and diseases. in this article, we will report 83 cases of this disease. methods: retrospectively, we retrieved 83 records of patients with cancer arising from chronic skin conditions. data concerning demography, type of original skin insult, time interval between original lesion and cancer, cancer h...

background: marjolin's ulcer is a rare, aggressive condition that arises on chronic skin lesions and diseases. in this article, we will report 83 cases of this disease. methods: retrospectively, we retrieved 83 records of patients with cancer arising from chronic skin conditions. data concerning demography, type of original skin insult, time interval between original lesion and cancer, can...

a. A typical chronic non-healing ulcer with two abnormal findings: roll-out ulcer edge and nodular lesions in scarred tissue, may indicate malignant transformation to either squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the skin or osteosarcoma of the bone. b. SCC arising from chronic non-healing osteomyelitis (Marjolin ulcer) is the most likely diagnosis based on the presence of roll-out edge and symptom o...

Chronic wounds and scar tissues are prone to skin cancer. In 1828, Jean-Nicholas Marjolin described the occurrence of tumours in post-traumatic scar tissue. He did not, however, identify the warty ulcers he described as malignant. It was Dupuytren, who about two years later, noted that these lesions were cancerous. The eponym was bestowed by Da Costa in 1903. Marjolin's ulcer no longer refers o...