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9054196

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-3-13
pubmed:abstractText
Between 1983 and 1994, 66 Senegalese leprosy patients were seen for cauliflower growths developed in chronic plantar ulcer (CPU), (2 patients had each 2 tumors). 68 biopsies for pathological examination were taken: the diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma was effectively made in 39 cases (38 patients) and that of pseudo-epitheliomatous hyperplasia in the remaining 29 cases (28 patients). The mean annual frequency of cauliflower growths was 0.45 per 100 CPU. Among these tumors, the percentage of carcinoma was 57%. Of the 38 patients with a carcinoma, 5 refused amputation and all of them died. The 33 others were amputated and of these 8 died as a direct result of their carcinoma (24%). In the case of the 28 patients with hyperplasia, amputation was carried out on 18 patients and local excision on 10. In the months following the operation 8 recurrences were observed in 10 of the patients on whom excision had been carried out. These recurrences were treated by amputation. This gives a total of 93% of amputations in the cases of hyperplasia. These facts lead as to conclude that at least in countries where pathological examination is not available below knee amputation is the most reasonable action to take in the proliferative tumors developed on a CPU.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0001-5938
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
101-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
[Tumoral proliferations in chronic plantar ulcers: how to treat?].
pubmed:affiliation
Institut de Léprologie Appliquée, Dakar, Sénégal.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract