UK doctors remove rare 5-inch cancerous ‘DRAGON HORN’ from patients back in rare case

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A GRUESOME five-inch ‘dragon-horn’ was removed from the back of a 50-year-old man who had let the growth grow over a period of three years.

The horn had managed to grow to a size of 14cm in length and 5.8cm in width and in fact turned out to be cancerous. Termed as a ‘dragon horn’ by the British Medical Journal , doctors performed a “wide local excision” at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire.Doctors used a skin graft from his thigh to cover the wound from what is termed as a squamous cell carcinoma .

 

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