Background. Malignant neoplasms of the skin are fairly common tumors in world population and among Ukraine. The main method diagnosing skintumors is a biopsy, which allows establishing diagnosis at an early stage ensures cure most patients.
 Purpose. To evaluate modern recommendations for biopsy dermato-onсological diseases.
 Materials methods. search sources information was conducted...

Keloids are defined as excessive scar tissue formation extending beyond the area of the original skin injury and occurring in predisposed individuals. While no single treatment has proven widely effective, several series report excellent outcomes for keloids with post-surgery radiation therapy as described in the literature. We present a patient with recurrent giant keloid of left buttock after...

Breast cancer developing from a surgical scar is rare; this type of malignancy has been reported in only 12 cases to date. Herein, we report on a 52-year-old female who developed infiltrating ductal carcinoma in a surgical scar following excision of a benign mass. Two years previously, the patient underwent surgery and radiotherapy for invasive ductal carcinoma of the contralateral breast. The ...

Batchelor and Handfield-Jones’s recommendation that cases of diagnostic uncertainty should be urgently referred to a dermatologist in secondary care does not stand up.Of the three cases presented, two needed to be excised by surgeons, and although not stated, almost certainly, so did the third—a tumour. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s recommendation that all cases of...