Introduction: We report one case of melanoma cutaneous metastases strictly localized on a skin graft donor site distant from the tumor site.
Case Report: A patient with a shoulder melanoma was treated by surgery. A split-thickness skin graft was taken from a thigh to cover the raw area. Six months later, nodular cutaneous metastases strictly localized on the skin graft donor site appeared.
Comments: Physiopathology of those lesions is unknown. Hyaluronic acid is increased in granulation tissue and could be chimiotactic for melanoma cells.
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J Am Podiatr Med Assoc
January 2025
†Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
Tissue selective ultrasonic debridement is a new method of debriding chronic wounds that prepares the wound for advanced tissue application. This article presents the case of an 89-year-old woman with a chronic nonhealing wound to her lateral distal leg. The wound had a significant amount of biofilm and fibrous slough.
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San Roque Hospital, Lanzarote, Spain.
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Recent Findings: The microbiota's impact on skin cancer is multifaceted, involving immune modulation, inflammation, and metabolic interactions.
Xenotransplantation
January 2025
Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
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January 2025
University Equine Hospital, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Objectives: To report the management and outcomes of five horses with ear skin defects treated with the use of full-thickness mesh grafts and full-thickness Meek micrografts.
Animals: Five horses with acute or granulating pinna skin wounds.
Study Design: Short case series.
We examined the risk of subsequent malignant neoplasms (SMNs) in 1720 patients with hematologic cancers given allogeneic hematopoietic grafts from 03/1998 to 08/2023 after nonmyeloablative conditioning regimens. With a median follow-up of 12 years, the cumulative incidence of SMNs was 17% (95% CI, [15%, 19%]). Most SMNs (n = 543) were non-melanoma skin cancers seen in 208 patients; unfortunately, information on these cancers was not available in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database for comparison with such tumors in the general population.
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