title: Facial resurfacing with a monoblock full-thickness skin graft after multiple malignant melanomas excision in xeroderma pigmentosum.
abstract: Xeroderma pigmentosum is an autosomal recessive disease, characterized by vulnerability of the skin to solar radiation. Increase in sunlight-induced cancer is a direct consequence of an increase in mutated cells of the skin of patients with xeroderma pigmentosum. There is no specific technique for facial resurfacing in patients with xeroderma pigmentosum. In this article, a patient with xeroderma pigmentosum with multiple malignant melanomas on her face and radical excision of total facial skin followed by facial resurfacing with monoblock full-thickness skin graft from the abdomen is presented.
authors.affiliation: Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Selahattin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozmen
authors.forename: Safak
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uygur
authors.forename: Tolga
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Eryilmaz
authors.forename: Betul
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ak
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005145:Face / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D014983:Xeroderma Pigmentosum / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*