Saree cancer: A diagnosis

Saree cancer: A diagnosis

Saree cancer is a type of skin cancer that occurs along the waistline of Indian women wearing the traditional costume of ′saree′. The incidence of malignancy in scar tissues is 0.1-2.5%. Highly hypopigmented and thickened scars are more likely to progress into malignant lesions. Khanolkar and Suryab...

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Veröffentlicht in:Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences 2015, Vol.3 (1), p.121-123
Hauptverfasser: Nirhale, DakshayaniS, Bhatia, Mohit, Athavale, VirendraS, Calcuttawala, Murtuza
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Sprache:eng
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Dermatosis
saree cancer
wide local excision
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Zusammenfassung:Saree cancer is a type of skin cancer that occurs along the waistline of Indian women wearing the traditional costume of ′saree′. The incidence of malignancy in scar tissues is 0.1-2.5%. Highly hypopigmented and thickened scars are more likely to progress into malignant lesions. Khanolkar and Suryabai described a new type of skin cancer - ′dhoti cancer′ in 1945. Persistent and long term use results in chronic friction/irritation in the region of waist which in term leads to waist-dermatosis.
ISSN:2321-4848
DOI:10.4103/2321-4848.154962