When is surgical treatment not appropriate for morphea?
Morphea is an inflammatory cutaneous disease that can be mistaken for a soft-tissue neoplasm. The authors report two cases of morphea that were resected surgically before the histological diagnosis of morphea was rendered. One of the patients had a recurrence of morphea around her large surgical scar. They present these cases to alert surgeons to the pitfall of inappropriate surgical treatment of an inflammatory condition.
Kamath
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Division of Dermatology, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210-1228, USA.
Usmani
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Pellegrini
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D000328:Adult; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D012594:Scleroderma, Localized / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology