{"title":"Squamous cell carcinoma in bilateral untreated syndactyly.","authors":"Wee Leon Lam, Joseph Hardwicke, Gerard Laitung","doi":"10.3109/02844310701510298","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present an 81-year-old man with untreated bilateral syndactyly. Hand function and cosmesis did not concern him but long-term use of the hand resulted in chronic skin changes from friction, and the subsequent development of a squamous cell carcinoma.</p>","PeriodicalId":49569,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery","volume":"43 5","pages":"294-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/02844310701510298","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3109/02844310701510298","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We present an 81-year-old man with untreated bilateral syndactyly. Hand function and cosmesis did not concern him but long-term use of the hand resulted in chronic skin changes from friction, and the subsequent development of a squamous cell carcinoma.