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Porocarcinoma of the Left Foot: A Case Review

Amy Wong Division of Podiatry, Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA.

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Teviah Sachs Department of Surgery, Section of Surgical Oncology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

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Carmen D. Sarita-Reyes Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

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Anthony Tomich Division of Podiatry, Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA.

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Daniel J. Callaghan III Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

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Jonathan Ho Department of Dermatology, Section of Dermatopathology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

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Ali Al-Haseni Department of Dermatology, Section of Dermatopathology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

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Vitaliy Volansky Department of Podiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

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Hau Pham Department of Podiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

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Eccrine porocarcinoma is a rare malignant tumor of the eccrine sweat gland. This malignancy occurs most commonly in the lower extremities. It tends to occur in patients aged 60 to 80 years, affecting men and women equally. We present the case of a 62-year-old man with a lesion on the left foot. The diagnosis of the initial biopsy was squamous cell carcinoma. Six months later, the lesion reoccurred, and a second biopsy confirmed it to be eccrine porocarcinoma.

Corresponding author: Hau Pham, DPM, Department of Podiatry, Boston Medical Center, 732 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02118. (E-mail: hau.pham@bmc.org)
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