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| Year : 2006 | Volume
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Squamous cell carcinoma over a nevus: A rare case
KC Patro, S Padhi, DN Singh
Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre, Cuttack, Orissa, India
Correspondence Address:
K C Patro
SR-I, Dept of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Dr. E. Borges Marg, Parel, Mumbai
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.29831
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Malignant melanoma and basal cell carcinoma are more common over a preexisting nevus. But squamous cell carcinoma over a nevus is a rare phenomenon. A 55-year-old male presented with a slow growing noduloulcerative lesion on a preexisting nevus over scalp. For that he had undergone excisional biopsy. Biopsy came out to be a squamous cell carcinoma with lateral margin positive for tumor. So postoperative radiotherapy given by means of HDR brachytherapy. Now he is on follow-up. |
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