Erschienen in:
01.08.2012 | Case Report
Burn scar pleomorphic sarcoma—case report
verfasst von:
Daniel Francisco Mello, Stephanie Carneiro, Karen Chicol Gonçalves, Douglas Jorge
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Plastic Surgery
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Ausgabe 8/2012
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Excerpt
Malignant transformation in burn scars was formally described by Jean-Nicholas Marjolin in 1828, although there are reports that this phenomenon had been first noted by Celsus in the first century A.D. The term Marjolin’s ulcer (MU) is used to denote the malignancies, predominantly squamous cell carcinomas, which develop in scars and chronic wounds [
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