Total rhinectomy with prosthesis placement as a treatment for moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the nose.

Squamous cell carcinoma is one of the most common head and neck types of skin cancer. This main objective of this paper is to present a case of a patient who had a moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the nose and whose tumor had an aggressive growth.

[Thanatophoric dysplasia: case-based bioethical analysis]. / Displasia tanatofórica: una reflexión bioética a partir de un caso clínico.

This paper presents a case report of thanatophoric dysplasia diagnosed in the prenatal period using ultrasound standards. The course of the case pregnancy, birth process, and postnatal period is described. This report invites bioethical analysis using its principles, appealing to human dignity, diversity and otherness, particularly in the mother-child dyad and their family. An early diagnosis allows parental support as they face the course of this condition and its potentially fatal outcome.

El presente artículo muestra un caso de displasia tanatofórica, diagnosticado en el período prenatal bajo criterios ultrasonográficos. Se describe la evolución del embarazo hasta el nacimiento, así como la evolución postnatal del producto. Este reporte busca invitar a la reflexión bioética y retomar sus principios apelando a la otredad y a la dignidad humana, en particular del binomio madre e hijo y su entorno familiar. En este sentido, un diagnóstico precoz permite acompañar a los padres para afrontar el proceso evolutivo de esta patología, e incluso un desenlace fatal.