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An 80-year-old woman with local chest wall recurrence of breast cancer 52 years after Halsted mastectomy.
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The patient presented to a dermatologist in August of 2007 after development of a 3 cm x 3 cm red, scaly lesion on the right chest wall at the medial aspect of the skin graft (Figure 1).
The same patient after chest wall lesion excision and local tissue rearrangement using the skin from her contralateral breast.
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The patient underwent local tissue rearrangement using the contralateral breast skin to close the defect, followed by chemotherapy for treatment of her pulmonary metastases (Figure 2).