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Case Reports
. 2014 Jul;7(3):170-2.
doi: 10.4103/0974-2077.146676.

A rare case of synchronous saree cancer

N Naveen  1 , M Kamal Kumar  1 , Ramesh K Babu  1 , Prema Dhanraj  1
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Case Reports

A rare case of synchronous saree cancer

N Naveen et al. J Cutan Aesthet Surg. 2014 Jul.

Abstract

Skin cancers are rather uncommon malignancies comprising less than 1% of all the cancers in India. Saree cancer is a rare type of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Saree and dhoti are traditional male and female costumes respectively, which is unique to the Indian subcontinent. Constant wear of this clothing tightly around the waist results in changes in pigmentation and scaling of the skin, acanthosis, scar and ulceration and subsequent, gradual malignant changes. The process of repeated trauma over a long time and consequent interference with the healing process may rationalise the reason for malignant transformation. Few papers have been published on saree cancer, in main stream medical journals. We are presenting a rare case of saree cancer in a 68-year-old woman, with two distant bilateral ulceroproliferative growths in loin (Synchronous), along the waistline, which showed well-differentiated SCC on biopsy. Wide excision with rhomboid transposition flap was done bilaterally.

Keywords: Rhomboid flap; saree cancer; skin cancer; squamous cell carcinoma.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: None declared.

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Figure 1
Bilateral synchronous cancer lesions along the waist line
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Figure 2
Per-operative serial pics
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Figure 3
Post operative day 15
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Figure 4
Post operative day 30
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