Abstract | BACKGROUND: Depilatory radiotherapy was used in the sixties as a treatment for ringworm in Tunisia. Subsequently some of these patients developed radio-induced carcinomas of the scalp. AIM: To present the epidemiological, clinical, pathological,therapeutic features and out come of radio-induced cutaneous carcinomas. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study performed in the dermatology department of the La Rabta hospital of Tunis over a 6- year-period recording all histologically confirmed carcinomas in patients irradiated in childhood for tinea capitis. RESULTS: CONCLUSION: Our study shows that radio-induced cutaneous carcinomas are widely dominated by basal cell carcinoma. They arise, approximately, ten years earlier than carcinoma in patients with no history of scalp irradiation. However X-ray exposure does not seem to influence clinical or histological presentation, therapeutic modalities nor prognosis of these tumors. The prognosis of radioinduced cutaneous carcinomas was globally similar to that of other cutaneous carcinomas with same histological type and equivalent degree of invasion.
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Authors | Inès Zaraa, Sabra Ben Taazayet, Héla Zribi, Inès Chelly, Dalenda El Euch, Sondes Trojjet, Mourad Mokni, Slim Haouet, Amel Ben Osman |
Journal | La Tunisie medicale
(Tunis Med)
Vol. 91
Issue 3
Pg. 191-5
(Mar 2013)
ISSN: 0041-4131 [Print] Tunisia |
Vernacular Title | Carcinomes cutanés induits par la radiothérapie: a propos de 31 cas. |
PMID | 23588633
(Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Adult
- Aged
- Carcinoma, Basal Cell
(etiology)
- Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
(etiology)
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced
- Retrospective Studies
- Scalp
- Skin Neoplasms
(etiology)
- Tinea Capitis
(radiotherapy)
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