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A Rapidly Growing Forearm Pilomatricoma in an Elderly Patient

Pilomatricoma is a benign skin tumor of epithelial hair matrix cells that typically presents as a solitary nodule on the head or upper trunk. It occurs most often in children and young adults. While considered uncommon in middle-aged and elderly patients, there are reports of elderly patients with h...

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Autores principales: Blegen, Kristina, Samaniego, Michelle, Stetson, Cloyce, Sturgeon, Ashley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37323331
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39043
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author Blegen, Kristina
Samaniego, Michelle
Stetson, Cloyce
Sturgeon, Ashley
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description Pilomatricoma is a benign skin tumor of epithelial hair matrix cells that typically presents as a solitary nodule on the head or upper trunk. It occurs most often in children and young adults. While considered uncommon in middle-aged and elderly patients, there are reports of elderly patients with histopathologically diagnosed pilomatricomas; however, these cases primarily occurred on the face. We present a case of an 88-year-old female with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer who presented with a new, rapidly enlarging, biopsy-proven pilomatricoma on the forearm. This case highlights a unique age of onset and location for this skin tumor, suggesting that pilomatricomas are not limited to children and young adults and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of rapidly growing skin lesions in elderly patients. Diagnosis should be confirmed with biopsy in elderly patients, as pilomatricomas may mimic malignant skin lesions.
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spelling pubmed-102666952023-06-15 A Rapidly Growing Forearm Pilomatricoma in an Elderly Patient Blegen, Kristina Samaniego, Michelle Stetson, Cloyce Sturgeon, Ashley Cureus Dermatology Pilomatricoma is a benign skin tumor of epithelial hair matrix cells that typically presents as a solitary nodule on the head or upper trunk. It occurs most often in children and young adults. While considered uncommon in middle-aged and elderly patients, there are reports of elderly patients with histopathologically diagnosed pilomatricomas; however, these cases primarily occurred on the face. We present a case of an 88-year-old female with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer who presented with a new, rapidly enlarging, biopsy-proven pilomatricoma on the forearm. This case highlights a unique age of onset and location for this skin tumor, suggesting that pilomatricomas are not limited to children and young adults and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of rapidly growing skin lesions in elderly patients. Diagnosis should be confirmed with biopsy in elderly patients, as pilomatricomas may mimic malignant skin lesions. Cureus 2023-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10266695/ /pubmed/37323331 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39043 Text en Copyright © 2023, Blegen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short A Rapidly Growing Forearm Pilomatricoma in an Elderly Patient
title_sort rapidly growing forearm pilomatricoma in an elderly patient
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37323331
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39043
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