Carcinoma Arising in a Tracheostomy Scar

Basal Cell Carcinoma Arising from Surgical Scars: A Case and Review of the Literature

“…This suggestion may be true since the head and neck region is the most common location of BCC. 24 The other case was reported by Warren et al 21 growing in a tracheostomy site after secondary healing lasting 2 weeks. Characteristics of this scar should be different from the former because a prolonged inflammatory reaction is 22 The other 2 surgical scar BCC cases are presented in the article of Dolan et al 23 as developing in presternal cardiac surgery scars 5 years and 9 months after the operations.…”

“…[17][18][19] Only five BCC cases arising from surgical scars have been reported in the literature we reviewed. [20][21][22][23]…”

Basal Cell Carcinoma Arising in a Cleft Lip Repair Scar

“…The first of the BCC cases in a surgical scar occurred in a hair transplantation recipient site 5 years after the operation 9 . Another case was reported by Warren et al 10 involving a tracheostomy site that healed by second intention. The third case was a BCC that developed in a hemithyroidectomy scar 11 .…”

Scar Carcinoma of the Trachea after Tracheotomy

“…In 1 case, cancer solely developed in the cutis [12]. All of them were squamous cell carcinomas and developed at the site of the cannula.…”

“…[5] with a cumulated total of 145 cases reveals the high est percentage for squamous cell carcinomas with 55.9%, followed by adenoid cystic carcinomas (28.3%), adenocar cinomas (5.5%), sarcomas (5.5%), lymphomas (2.8%), small cell carcinomas (1.4%) and one mucoepidermoid carcinoma (0.7%). There are some case reports on carci nomas developing in tracheotomy scars and tracheosto mies [6][7][8][9][10][11][12],…”