title: Tetanus: an unusual source and site of infection.
abstract: Tetanus is reported in a previously immunised patient who was exposed to the dust of old building plaster containing horse hair. The site of infection was a squamous cell carcinoma of the scalp.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012535:Scalp; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D013742:Tetanus / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy