Pilomatrixoma of Earlobe

Pilomatrixomas are uncommon in children and are frequently misdiagnosed preoperatively. We report a two-year-old female patient with an unusual localization in the earlobe. The lesion was treated by simple enucleation and in two years of follow-up there has been no evidence of recurrence. The case i...

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Autores principales: Jallouli, Mohamed, Yengui, Houssem, Khabir, Abdelmajid, Mhiri, Riadh
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300371
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.53099
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author Jallouli, Mohamed
Yengui, Houssem
Khabir, Abdelmajid
Mhiri, Riadh
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description Pilomatrixomas are uncommon in children and are frequently misdiagnosed preoperatively. We report a two-year-old female patient with an unusual localization in the earlobe. The lesion was treated by simple enucleation and in two years of follow-up there has been no evidence of recurrence. The case is being reported in view of its rarity and unusual location.
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spelling pubmed-28409212010-03-18 Pilomatrixoma of Earlobe Jallouli, Mohamed Yengui, Houssem Khabir, Abdelmajid Mhiri, Riadh J Cutan Aesthet Surg Case Report Pilomatrixomas are uncommon in children and are frequently misdiagnosed preoperatively. We report a two-year-old female patient with an unusual localization in the earlobe. The lesion was treated by simple enucleation and in two years of follow-up there has been no evidence of recurrence. The case is being reported in view of its rarity and unusual location. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2840921/ /pubmed/20300371 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.53099 Text en © Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery 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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Jallouli, Mohamed
Yengui, Houssem
Khabir, Abdelmajid
Mhiri, Riadh
Pilomatrixoma of Earlobe
title Pilomatrixoma of Earlobe
title_full Pilomatrixoma of Earlobe
title_fullStr Pilomatrixoma of Earlobe
title_full_unstemmed Pilomatrixoma of Earlobe
title_short Pilomatrixoma of Earlobe
title_sort pilomatrixoma of earlobe
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300371
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.53099
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