Case Reports in Surgery (Jan 2012)

Primary Cutaneous Melanoma Arising in a Long-Standing Irradiated Keloid

  • Lindsay M. Fish,
  • Lisa Duncan,
  • Keith D. Gray,
  • John L. Bell,
  • James M. Lewis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/165319
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2012

Abstract

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Ionizing radiation has been used therapeutically for a variety of clinical conditions, including treatment of hypertrophic keloids. Keloids may rarely be associated with malignancy, but the use of low-dose ionizing radiation is associated with an increased risk of cutaneous malignancies. We describe a case in which a primary desmoplastic melanoma arose in a long-standing, previously irradiated keloid.