Spontaneous Cutaneous Endometriosis of the Umbilicus

Cutaneous endometriosis that arises de novo, without a prior history of surgery, is a rare phenomenon. The clinical diagnosis of cutaneous endometriosis remains challenging due to the variable clinical appearance and symptoms of the condition, and therefore must be considered in the differential dia...

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Autores principales: Gin, Thomas J., Gin, Alexander D., Gin, Douglas, Pham, Alan, Cahill, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2013
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Published online: December, 2013
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3919486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24516408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000357493
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author Gin, Thomas J.
Gin, Alexander D.
Gin, Douglas
Pham, Alan
Cahill, Jennifer
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description Cutaneous endometriosis that arises de novo, without a prior history of surgery, is a rare phenomenon. The clinical diagnosis of cutaneous endometriosis remains challenging due to the variable clinical appearance and symptoms of the condition, and therefore must be considered in the differential diagnosis of any umbilical lesion. We report a 31-year-old woman who presented with spontaneous cutaneous endometriosis of the umbilicus.
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spelling pubmed-39194862014-02-10 Spontaneous Cutaneous Endometriosis of the Umbilicus Gin, Thomas J. Gin, Alexander D. Gin, Douglas Pham, Alan Cahill, Jennifer Case Rep Dermatol Published online: December, 2013 Cutaneous endometriosis that arises de novo, without a prior history of surgery, is a rare phenomenon. The clinical diagnosis of cutaneous endometriosis remains challenging due to the variable clinical appearance and symptoms of the condition, and therefore must be considered in the differential diagnosis of any umbilical lesion. We report a 31-year-old woman who presented with spontaneous cutaneous endometriosis of the umbilicus. S. Karger AG 2013-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3919486/ /pubmed/24516408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000357493 Text en Copyright © 2013 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
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Spontaneous Cutaneous Endometriosis of the Umbilicus
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title_short Spontaneous Cutaneous Endometriosis of the Umbilicus
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topic Published online: December, 2013
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