TY - JOUR AU - Ferrigno, Pia AU - Monaci, Nicola AU - Pangoni, Alessandro AU - Comacchio, Giovanni AU - Natale, Giuseppe AU - Faccioli, Eleonora AU - Zuin, Andrea AU - Dell’Amore, Andrea AU - Rea, Federico PY - 2019 TI - Extensive abdominal and chest wall resection and reconstruction for invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the skin JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 12, No 1 (January 10, 2020): Journal of Thoracic Disease (Chest Wall Resection and Reconstruction) Y2 - 2019 KW - N2 - 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. UR - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/31229