医生被男子背部长出的5英寸“龙角”震惊了

A UK man baffled doctors after a 5-inch cancerous “dragon horn” sprouted out of his back despite him having no history of skin cancer, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal.

《英国医学杂志》最新公布的一项研究结果显示，英国一名男子尽管没有皮肤癌病史，但背部竟然长出了一个5英寸长的“龙角”，这让医生们很困惑。

The unnamed 50-year-old day laborer’s protuberance — which also resembled a gnarled talon and pumpkin stem — was diagnosed with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, the second-most prevalent strain of non-melanoma skin cancer, study authors report.

研究报告的作者称，这位不知名的50岁日工被诊断出患有皮肤鳞状细胞癌，这是第二常见的非黑素瘤皮肤癌。

His growth was perplexing, as the patient had “no previous or family history of skin malignancy and was not immunosuppressed,” per the report. Not only that, but there weren’t any of the lymphatic abnormalities generally associated with such an aberration.

他的成长是令人困惑的，因为病人“没有以前或家族的皮肤恶性肿瘤史，也没有免疫抑制，”报告说。不仅如此，也没有任何淋巴异常通常与这种异常相关。

While most cutaneous cases are surgically nipped in the bud, this patient had allowed his tumor to blossom for three years — in effect making a mountain out of a malignant molehill.

虽然大多数皮肤病例都是在萌芽期就被外科手术切除了，但这位病人却让自己的肿瘤生长了三年之久——实际上是把恶性的鼹鼠丘变成了一座大山。

As a result, the growth had to be excised by surgeons at the Countess of Chester Hospital, the BBC reports. The deficit tissue was then replaced with a skin graft from his thigh.

据英国广播公司报道，结果，生长必须由切斯特伯爵夫人医院的外科医生切除。然后用他大腿上的皮肤移植物替换了缺失的组织。

Although the operation was successful, the surprised BMJ study authors said the anomalous ailment only occurred because it was “neglected by a patient living in a developed country with access to free healthcare.”

尽管手术很成功，但令人惊讶的《英国医学杂志》的研究作者说，这种异常的疾病之所以会发生，只是因为它“被一个生活在发达国家、享受免费医疗的病人忽视了”。

“This highlights that despite current public skin cancer awareness and rigorous healthcare measures, cases like this can still arise and slip through the net,” wrote the quartet of Counter of Chester Hospital surgeons behind the case study.

“这突出表明，尽管目前公众对皮肤癌的认识和严格的医疗保健措施，像这样的病例仍然可能出现并漏网，”负责案例研究的切斯特医院(Chester Hospital)外科医生组成的四人小组写道。