Pilomatrixoma of Left Shoulder in an Elderly Female: A Case Report

We report a huge pilomatrixoma of the left shoulder in an elderly female, raising fear of malignancy. Magnetic Resonance Imaging delineated the swelling and wide surgical excision was performed. Post operative recovery was uneventful. Long term follow up is necessary in view of the possibility of re...

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Autores principales: Tan, LH, Ooi, CL, Chua, HS, Zulkiflee, O
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4341040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25722828
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1307.005
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description We report a huge pilomatrixoma of the left shoulder in an elderly female, raising fear of malignancy. Magnetic Resonance Imaging delineated the swelling and wide surgical excision was performed. Post operative recovery was uneventful. Long term follow up is necessary in view of the possibility of recurrence and malignant transformation. KEY WORDS: Pilomatrixoma, Pilomatricoma, Calcifying Epithelioma of Malherbe, Shoulder, Upper Limb, Elderly, Female
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spelling pubmed-43410402015-02-26 Pilomatrixoma of Left Shoulder in an Elderly Female: A Case Report Tan, LH Ooi, CL Chua, HS Zulkiflee, O Malays Orthop J Research Article We report a huge pilomatrixoma of the left shoulder in an elderly female, raising fear of malignancy. Magnetic Resonance Imaging delineated the swelling and wide surgical excision was performed. Post operative recovery was uneventful. Long term follow up is necessary in view of the possibility of recurrence and malignant transformation. KEY WORDS: Pilomatrixoma, Pilomatricoma, Calcifying Epithelioma of Malherbe, Shoulder, Upper Limb, Elderly, Female Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2013-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4341040/ /pubmed/25722828 http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1307.005 Text en Copyright © 2014, Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Pilomatrixoma of Left Shoulder in an Elderly Female: A Case Report
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title_short Pilomatrixoma of Left Shoulder in an Elderly Female: A Case Report
title_sort pilomatrixoma of left shoulder in an elderly female: a case report
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1307.005
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