@article{JTD31229,
author = {Pia Ferrigno and Nicola Monaci and Alessandro Pangoni and Giovanni Comacchio and Giuseppe Natale and Eleonora Faccioli and Andrea Zuin and Andrea Dell’Amore and Federico Rea},
title = {Extensive abdominal and chest wall resection and reconstruction for invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the skin},
journal = {Journal of Thoracic Disease},
volume = {12},
number = {1},
year = {2019},
keywords = {},
abstract = {The effective incidence of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the skin (cSCC) is unknown, in general cSCC is the second most common skin cancer, accounting for 20% of all cutaneous malignancies, with a continuous increase in its frequency (1). The skin of the thorax is a very rare localization for this kind of tumor (1-4). Despite cSCC is a malignant proliferation of keratinizing cells of the epidermis, generally, when the diagnosis is made, early surgical resection with adequate surgical margins is curative in more than 95% of the cases (5). Here we present a very rare case of local recurrence of a huge cSCC involving the anterior chest wall that underwent extensive chest wall resection associated to complex reconstruction by using a combination of synthetic materials and autologous flaps.},
issn = {2077-6624}, url = {https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/31229}
}