Perforating Pilomatricoma in a 62-Year-Old Female: A Rare Case Report

Pilomatricoma presents as a single, slow-growing, painless, superficial mass arising from the hair matrix cells, over the hair-bearing areas of the body, especially the head and neck. Perforating pilomatricoma is a rare variant of pilomatricoma presenting as crusted or ulcerated nodule. Here, we rep...

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Autores principales: Thakur, Binod Kumar, Verma, Shikha, Mishra, Jaya
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25368474
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.142864
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description Pilomatricoma presents as a single, slow-growing, painless, superficial mass arising from the hair matrix cells, over the hair-bearing areas of the body, especially the head and neck. Perforating pilomatricoma is a rare variant of pilomatricoma presenting as crusted or ulcerated nodule. Here, we report a case of 62-year-old female presenting with rapidly growing noduloulcerative lesion on the left cheek, which on histopathology showed perforating pilomatricoma.
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spelling pubmed-42122942014-11-03 Perforating Pilomatricoma in a 62-Year-Old Female: A Rare Case Report Thakur, Binod Kumar Verma, Shikha Mishra, Jaya Int J Trichology Case Report Pilomatricoma presents as a single, slow-growing, painless, superficial mass arising from the hair matrix cells, over the hair-bearing areas of the body, especially the head and neck. Perforating pilomatricoma is a rare variant of pilomatricoma presenting as crusted or ulcerated nodule. Here, we report a case of 62-year-old female presenting with rapidly growing noduloulcerative lesion on the left cheek, which on histopathology showed perforating pilomatricoma. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4212294/ /pubmed/25368474 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.142864 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Trichology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Thakur, Binod Kumar
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Perforating Pilomatricoma in a 62-Year-Old Female: A Rare Case Report
title Perforating Pilomatricoma in a 62-Year-Old Female: A Rare Case Report
title_full Perforating Pilomatricoma in a 62-Year-Old Female: A Rare Case Report
title_fullStr Perforating Pilomatricoma in a 62-Year-Old Female: A Rare Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Perforating Pilomatricoma in a 62-Year-Old Female: A Rare Case Report
title_short Perforating Pilomatricoma in a 62-Year-Old Female: A Rare Case Report
title_sort perforating pilomatricoma in a 62-year-old female: a rare case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25368474
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.142864
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