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The Significance of a Single Injury in the Causation of Basal‐Cell Carcinoma of the Skin
Author(s) -
Ewing M. R.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1968.tb06278.x
Subject(s) - medicine , basal cell carcinoma , basal cell , basal (medicine) , carcinoma , pathogenesis , causation , pathology , dermatology , political science , insulin , law
The case records arc reported of 13 patients who gave a history of a well‐remembered injury, which appeared to have resulted, within a comparatively short period of time, in the development of a basal‐cell carcinoma at the same site. Although it is likely that, if such an injury is relevant, it has only accelerated the appearance of a tumour in a precancerous area, it is, none the less, curious that this happening is more commonly recorded in the pathogenesis of a basal‐cell carcinoma than in that of a squamous‐cell carcinoma. In seven of the cases the injury was a thermal one.