This Article  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (1)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Laurence J. Underwood, M.D.; Eliot Wolk, M.D.; Max Popper, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1959;80(1):119-120.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Recurrent Sclerosing Basal-Cell Carcinoma. Presented by DR. FLOYD J. DORNBUSH.

This 68-year-old white woman was first seen by me in 1953 because of a lesion on the left temple. At that time she stated that she had had a skin cancer which was treated with four x-ray treatments approximately six years previously. After these x-ray treatments, the entire lesion was excised. The wound never healed completely.

When first seen she presented a 2 in. long, linear scar, overlying the left eye with a central ulcer, 5x8 mm. in diameter. It was felt that this represented a recurrent basal-cell carcinoma. At that time, it was thoroughly curetted and desiccated in the Los Angeles County General Hospital. The lesion healed but did not remain free of disease. Six to eight months later, it began to scale and ulcerate again. At that time, the entire scar was excised in an . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 24, 1958.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?