GIANT CUTANEOUS HORN

A 53-year-old male presented with a giant cutaneous horn over the left leg. Cutaneous horn was excised and primary closure of the defect was done under spinal anesthesia. Histopathology showed underlying seborrheic keratosis. Cutaneous horn has been noticed on top of many clinical conditions of dive...

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Autores principales: Kumaresan, M, Kumar, Pramod, Pai, Manohar Varadharaj
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19882036
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.44800
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author Kumaresan, M
Kumar, Pramod
Pai, Manohar Varadharaj
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description A 53-year-old male presented with a giant cutaneous horn over the left leg. Cutaneous horn was excised and primary closure of the defect was done under spinal anesthesia. Histopathology showed underlying seborrheic keratosis. Cutaneous horn has been noticed on top of many clinical conditions of diverse etiology, such as actinic keratoses, wart, molluscum contagiosum, seborrheic keratoses, keratoacanthoma, basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma. We report a patient with giant cutaneous horn on the leg successfully treated by excision and wound closure.
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spelling pubmed-27637522009-10-29 GIANT CUTANEOUS HORN Kumaresan, M Kumar, Pramod Pai, Manohar Varadharaj Indian J Dermatol Case Report A 53-year-old male presented with a giant cutaneous horn over the left leg. Cutaneous horn was excised and primary closure of the defect was done under spinal anesthesia. Histopathology showed underlying seborrheic keratosis. Cutaneous horn has been noticed on top of many clinical conditions of diverse etiology, such as actinic keratoses, wart, molluscum contagiosum, seborrheic keratoses, keratoacanthoma, basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma. We report a patient with giant cutaneous horn on the leg successfully treated by excision and wound closure. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2763752/ /pubmed/19882036 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.44800 Text en © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
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title_short GIANT CUTANEOUS HORN
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763752/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.44800
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