Marjolin's warty ulcer.
Marjolin's ulcer refers to malignant change within burn scar. The French surgeon Jean-Nicolas Marjolin is honored with the eponym. Marjolin described the "warty ulcer" in the first edition of Dictionnaire de Medécine. In his description, Marjolin did not actually state that this ulcer represented malignant transformation. Credit for noting the specific association involved in Marjolin's ulcer belongs to Caesar Hawkins, an English Surgeon, who described skin cancer arising in burn and flogging scars.
Department of Dermatology, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
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D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000209:etiology* / Q000266:history*; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000150:complications*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000266:history*