Afr J Med Med Sci
September 2012
Background: Squamous cell carcinoma, a malignant proliferation of keratinocytes, can be found in many regions of the body covered by stratified squamous epithelium and in areas covered by other epithelia but which had undergone squamous metaplasia. Squamous cell carcinoma has many variants.
Methodology: We, retrospectively, reviewed the case file and histological features of a 75 year old trader with a rare variant of squamous cell carcinoma arising from an old surgical scar.