Abstract
An 80-year-old woman suffered a burn on her left lower leg caused by a hot water bottle. The wound healed with conservative treatment, but a recurrence of the ulceration occurred one year and a half after primary wound healing. It resisted conservative treatment, and ulceration returned. For this reason a resection of the ulcer and skin grafting were performed seven months later. The histopathological diagnosis was basal cell carcinoma and additional wide resection was performed. There was no recurrence of the tumor two years after the second operation. Basal cell carcinoma arising from a burn scar in such a short term is rare. [Skin Cancer (Japan) 2006; 21: 298-301]
