What Is a Bone Infection?
4. Skin Cancer
As well as the symptoms mentioned, a bone infection can cause some potentially serious complications. One of these is skin cancer. The condition has been known to cause squamous cell cancer in particular. Squamous cells are cells that help to make up the outermost part of your skin.
This can occur if a bone infection is releasing pus into the nearby skin, causing the cells to become damaged. Squamous cell cancer is thankfully treatable in most cases, but the patient should still find medical attention as soon as the condition is detected. In many cases, the cancerous cells will simply be removed surgically.
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