Man with horn growing on back ‘slipped through the net’
The UK patient had none of the usual risk factors - but was a smoker
Despite growing public skin cancer awareness and access to free healthcare in the UK, somehow this man still managed to grow something on his back that rather disturbingly resembled a dragon’s horn.
The burgeoning lesion had been present on the 50-year-old labourer’s lower back for three years, but he had none of the usual risk factors — no significant sun exposure, no previous or family history of skin malignancy and was not immunosuppressed; he was, however, a smoker.
On examination, doctors noted an enormous cutaneous horn on the lower back measuring 140mm×60mm×55mm.
Surprisingly, the patient’s lymph nodes were not swollen.
