Periungual pigmented Bowen’s disease treated by micrographic surgery



Document title: Periungual pigmented Bowen’s disease treated by micrographic surgery
Journal: Surgical & cosmetic dermatology
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000409228
ISSN: 1984-5510
Authors:


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Institutions: 1Hospital Federal de Bonsucesso, Servico de Dermatologia, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
Year:
Season: Oct-Dic
Volumen: 8
Number: 4
Pages: 46-49
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Caso clínico, descriptivo
English abstract We report a case of pigmented Bowen’s disease in the periungual region treated with Mohs micrographic surgery. Bowen’s disease is a squamous cell carcinoma in situ. Although it is a common condition, the pigmented form is rarer, with periungual localization being even more uncommon. Pigmented Bowen’s disease presents clinically as a non-uniform, desquamous or verrucous brownish lesion, and it is often confused with other diseases (pigmented actinic keratosis, seborrheic keratosis, melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, nevus). Dermoscopy is of great diagnostic and therapeutic value and is important in the evaluation of recurrence
Portuguese abstract Apresenta-se um caso de doença de Bowen pigmentada na região periungueal, tratado com cirurgia micrográfica de Mohs. A doença de Bowen é um de carcinoma espinocelular in situ. Embora seja condição comum, a forma pigmentada é mais rara, sendo a localização periungueal ainda mais incomum. A doença de Bowen pigmentada se apresenta clinicamente como lesão acastanhada não uniforme, de superfície descamativa ou verrucosa, e é frequentemente confundida com outras doenças (queratose actínica pigmentada, queratose seborreica, melanoma, carcinoma basocelular, nevo). A dermatoscopia é de grande utilidade diagnóstica, terapêutica e na avaliação de recorrência
Disciplines: Medicina
Keyword: Cirugía,
Dermatología,
Oncología,
Uñas,
Carcinoma espinocelular,
Dermatoscopía,
Enfermedad de Bowen,
Cirugía de Mohs
Keyword: Medicine,
Dermatology,
Oncology,
Surgery,
Nails,
Squamous cell carcinoma,
Dermatoscopy,
Bowen disease,
Mohs surgery
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