Bowen's disease and internal malignant diseases. A study of 581 patients
- 1 May 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 124 (5) , 677-679
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.124.5.677
Abstract
In a retrospective study of 581 patients with a diagnosis of Bowen''s disease (BD) treated over a 40-year period, we traced patient records to identify later diagnoses of nonskin-cancer. Fifty patients had nonskin cancer, as against an expected number of 40, but this difference was not significant. The lack of association was equally true for BD on sun-exposed and non-sun-exposed skin. Our findings support the view that BD is not a skin marker for internal malignant disease.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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