Inguinal Lymph Node Dissection for Advanced Stages of Plantar Melanoma in a Low-Income Country.

Background: Advanced stages of plantar acral lentiginous melanoma are common in Africa. Inguinal lymph node dissection (ILND) in these cases plays a critical role in disease-free and overall survival. Our study aims to share our experience in ILND for advanced plantar melanomas.

Darier and Ferrand's dermatofibrosarcoma: A carcinologic and cosmetologic challenge in a low-income country.

Introduction: Dermatofibrosarcoma (DFS) is a common dermic sarcoma. It is a local malignant tumor occurring in young adults. The recurrence potential justifies an R0-type surgery with a three centimeters margin.

[A case of rhinofacial entomophthoromycosis in Soudano-Sahelian tropical climate in Burkina Faso].

We describe a rhinofacial entomophthoramycosis case in a sexagenarian (65 years old) housewife. She was immunocompetent and resident of Burkina Faso. She consulted both the service of dermatology and the service of stomatology of the Teaching Hospital of Bobo-Dioulasso in February 2016 for a diffuse facial tumefaction evolving over six months.

[Cryptococcosis: a potential aetiology of facial ulceration].

Unlabelled: Cutaneous cryptococcosis is an uncommon aetiology of chronic facial ulceration but which may be associated to a potentially lethal focus of cryptococcosis.

Observation: A 35-year-old AIDS patient under antiretroviral therapy, presented with a chronic facial ulceration. Histopathological examination of a biopsy of the facial ulceration showed an inflammatory granuloma and masses of yeasts.