title: Eccrine porocarcinoma of the lower extremity: a case report and review of literature.
abstract: Eccrine porocarcinoma is a rare malignancy of the eccrine sweat gland. It is usually found frequently on the lower extremities, and it affects both sexes equally usually in the sixth to seventh decade. In our case, we present a 42-year-old male patient with a recurring exophytic tumor on the right lower extremity without local extension. The initial tumor was biopsied, excised and diagnosed as an eccrine poroma. The tumor then recurred 6 years later, was re-excised, reconstructed with a soleus muscle flap and diagnosed as an eccrine porocarcinoma.
authors.affiliation: General Surgery Department, The Brooklyn Hospital, NY, USA. olc9008@nyp.org
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Ashraf
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Elnawawi
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rimpel
authors.forename: Armand
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Asarian
authors.forename: Nadeem
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chaudhry
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D057090:Eccrine Porocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D035002:Lower Extremity; D008297:Male; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods*; D013544:Sweat Gland Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery