BOWENOID PAPULOSIS OF THE GENITALIA SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH TOPICAL TAZAROTENE: A REPORT OF TWO CASES

Bowenoid papulosis is a rare condition of the genital area caused by human papilloma virus. Clinically, it resembles viral wart and histopathologically Bowen's disease. We herein report two male patients presenting with multiple flat papules on the penis and scrotum. The second patient was HIV-...

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Autores principales: Shastry, Veeranna, Betkerur, Jayadev, Kushalappa
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20161865
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.55643
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Betkerur, Jayadev
Kushalappa,
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description Bowenoid papulosis is a rare condition of the genital area caused by human papilloma virus. Clinically, it resembles viral wart and histopathologically Bowen's disease. We herein report two male patients presenting with multiple flat papules on the penis and scrotum. The second patient was HIV-positive. Histopathology showed features of bowenoid papulosis. Both the patients were treated with topical tazarotene gel 0.05%. Lesions cleared within 2 weeks in both the patients.Second patient had recurrences that cleared after retreatment with tazarotene.
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spelling pubmed-28107002010-02-16 BOWENOID PAPULOSIS OF THE GENITALIA SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH TOPICAL TAZAROTENE: A REPORT OF TWO CASES Shastry, Veeranna Betkerur, Jayadev Kushalappa, Indian J Dermatol Case Report Bowenoid papulosis is a rare condition of the genital area caused by human papilloma virus. Clinically, it resembles viral wart and histopathologically Bowen's disease. We herein report two male patients presenting with multiple flat papules on the penis and scrotum. The second patient was HIV-positive. Histopathology showed features of bowenoid papulosis. Both the patients were treated with topical tazarotene gel 0.05%. Lesions cleared within 2 weeks in both the patients.Second patient had recurrences that cleared after retreatment with tazarotene. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2810700/ /pubmed/20161865 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.55643 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Shastry, Veeranna
Betkerur, Jayadev
Kushalappa,
BOWENOID PAPULOSIS OF THE GENITALIA SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH TOPICAL TAZAROTENE: A REPORT OF TWO CASES
title BOWENOID PAPULOSIS OF THE GENITALIA SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH TOPICAL TAZAROTENE: A REPORT OF TWO CASES
title_full BOWENOID PAPULOSIS OF THE GENITALIA SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH TOPICAL TAZAROTENE: A REPORT OF TWO CASES
title_fullStr BOWENOID PAPULOSIS OF THE GENITALIA SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH TOPICAL TAZAROTENE: A REPORT OF TWO CASES
title_full_unstemmed BOWENOID PAPULOSIS OF THE GENITALIA SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH TOPICAL TAZAROTENE: A REPORT OF TWO CASES
title_short BOWENOID PAPULOSIS OF THE GENITALIA SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH TOPICAL TAZAROTENE: A REPORT OF TWO CASES
title_sort bowenoid papulosis of the genitalia successfully treated with topical tazarotene: a report of two cases
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20161865
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.55643
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