%0 Journal Article %T Extensive abdominal and chest wall resection and reconstruction for invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the skin %A Ferrigno, Pia %A Monaci, Nicola %A Pangoni, Alessandro %A Comacchio, Giovanni %A Natale, Giuseppe %A Faccioli, Eleonora %A Zuin, Andrea %A Dell’Amore, Andrea %A Rea, Federico %J Journal of Thoracic Disease %D 2019 %B 2019 %9 %! Extensive abdominal and chest wall resection and reconstruction for invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the skin %K %X The effective incidence of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the skin (cSCC) is unknown, in general cSCC is the second most common skin cancer, accounting for 20% of all cutaneous malignancies, with a continuous increase in its frequency (1). The skin of the thorax is a very rare localization for this kind of tumor (1-4). Despite cSCC is a malignant proliferation of keratinizing cells of the epidermis, generally, when the diagnosis is made, early surgical resection with adequate surgical margins is curative in more than 95% of the cases (5). Here we present a very rare case of local recurrence of a huge cSCC involving the anterior chest wall that underwent extensive chest wall resection associated to complex reconstruction by using a combination of synthetic materials and autologous flaps. %U https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/31229 %V 12 %N 1 %P 45-49 %@ 2077-6624