African journal of medicine and medical sciences
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Case Reports
Pseudoangiosarcomatous squamous cell carcinoma in an old surgical scar of an African woman.
Squamous cell carcinoma, a malignant proliferation of keratinocytes, can be found in many regions of the body covered by stratified squamous epithelium and in areas covered by other epithelia but which had undergone squamous metaplasia. Squamous cell carcinoma has many variants. ⋯ This tumour can be found in Africans and in an old surgical scar. It can coexist with other variants of squamous cell carcinoma. There may be need in the future to add a new mixed variant to the current classification scheme.