This report describes a 78-year old male patient with a chronic venous ulcer on his left leg for the past 24 years, complicated by a squamous-cell carcinoma. After staging of the disease, the treatment administered was amputation of the leg above the knee. Marjolin's ulcer consists of the malignant transformation of a chronic ulcerative lesion. It is a relatively rare phenomenon. The malignant ...

Abstract Background Venous leg ulceration is a widespread, debilitating pathology with high recurrence rates. Conservative treatment using graduated compression dressings may be associated unacceptable ulcer Early superficial venous ablation encourages healing and reduces recurrence. However, many of this cohort display concomitant ilio-caval stenosis, which further contributes to lower limb hy...

OBJECTIVE To assess the importance of iliac venous outflow obstruction in limbs with and without concomitant deep or superficial reflux, we performed a retrospective analysis of data contemporaneously entered into a set time-stamped electronic medical records program. MATERIAL AND METHOD Four hundred forty-seven limbs underwent iliac vein stenting of chronic, nonmalignant obstruction when gre...

Chronic wounds and scar tissues are prone to skin cancer. In 1828, Jean-Nicholas Marjolin described the occurrence of tumours in post-traumatic scar tissue. He did not, however, identify the warty ulcers he described as malignant. It was Dupuytren, who about two years later, noted that these lesions were cancerous. The eponym was bestowed by Da Costa in 1903. Marjolin's ulcer no longer refers o...

We aimed to compare outcomes using endovenous cyanoacrylate venous closure and thermal ablation (radiofrequency laser therapy) for ulcer healing in patients with Clinical-Etiology-Anatomy-Pathophysiology (CEAP) class 6 chronic insufficiency. Our single-institution, prospectively-maintained database was retrospectively queried CEAP ulcers who underwent between February 2012 July 2022. Electronic...

The role of compression stockings in the treatment of chronic venous disease was amply demonstrated. Concerning patients with chronic venous leg ulcers (VLUs), multi-layer bandage is the standard of care. Recently, multicomponent compression stocking (McCS) systems for VLUs treatment and healing nowaday have been proposed. The aim of this review is to describe and analyze current literature evi...

BACKGROUND There has been limited examination of the contribution of socio-economic factors to the development of leg ulcers, despite the social patterning of many underlying risk factors. No previous studies were found that examined social patterns in the quality of treatment received by patients with leg ulcers. METHODS Using The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database we identified a co...

BACKGROUND Venous leg ulcers account for 85% of all lower-extremity ulcers, with treatment costs of 3 billion dollars and loss of 2 million workdays per year. The purpose of this study was to validate the clinical efficacy and cost effectiveness of multidisciplinary guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of venous leg ulcers. METHODS Eighty (40 retrospective, 40 prospective) patients from...

BACKGROUND Venous ulcers are estimated to be present in 0.2 to 0.4% of the population. Although new therapies have significant promise, nonhealing ulcers still represent a significant problem. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of low energy photon therapy (LEPT) in the treatment of venous leg ulcers. METHODS A placebo-controlled, double-blind study using low energy photon therapy was perfo...