We present the case report of a male patient with a diagnosis of synchronous kidney, bladder and prostate tumours with different histologies: renal oncocytoma, urothelial carcinoma of the bladder, and adenocarcinoma of the prostate. This is the first case report described in the literature in which a complete surgical resection of triple tumours has been performed with surgery in a single session. Recent advances in the field of genetics enable the surgeon to hypothesise new strategies in the early treatment of synchronous tumours, particularly when a number of common tumour markers are positive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMarjolin's ulcer is an epidermoid carcinoma arising in a scar or chronic wound and is characterised by an aggressive course. We present a clinical case of ulcerated skin carcinoma of the breast arising in an 80-year-old woman, who at history taking reported a burn occurring 30 years earlier on the breast skin, with subsequent chronic ulcerative scar formation. The definitive histological examination identified a "squamous-cell carcinoma of the breast skin".
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