%0 Journal Article
%T ¨²lcera de Marjolin associada a ulcera£¿£¿o e osteomielite cr£¿nicas
%A Tavares
%A Ermelindo
%A Martinho
%A Gon£¿alo
%A Dores
%A Jos¨¦ Alberto
%A Vera-Cruz
%A Frederico
%A Ferreira
%A Lu¨ªs
%J Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
%D 2011
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia
%R 10.1590/S0365-05962011000200026
%X this report describes a 78-year old male patient with a chronic venous ulcer on his left leg for the past 24 years, complicated by a squamous-cell carcinoma. after staging of the disease, the treatment administered was amputation of the leg above the knee. marjolin's ulcer consists of the malignant transformation of a chronic ulcerative lesion. it is a relatively rare phenomenon. the malignant tumor most commonly described in the literature is squamous cell carcinoma, followed by basal-cell carcinoma, sarcoma and melanoma. the pathogenesis of marjolin's ulcer remains to be fully clarified.
%K carcinoma
%K squamous cell
%K leg ulcer
%K osteomyelitis.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0365-05962011000200026&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en