%0 Journal Article
%T Extensive abdominal and chest wall resection and reconstruction for invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the skin
%A Alessandro Pangoni
%A Andrea DellĄŻAmore
%A Andrea Zuin
%A Eleonora Faccioli
%A Federico Rea
%A Giovanni Comacchio
%A Giuseppe Natale
%A Nicola Monaci
%A Pia Ferrigno
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2020
%R 10.21037/jtd.2019.08.08
%X 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
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