Fifty-Three Years after a Pencil Puncture Wound

A pencil core with an intact pencil tip was excised from the thigh of a 60-year-old male 53 years after a puncture wound. Histologic examination of the excised pencil core and the surrounding tissue revealed a foreign body reaction with abundant entrapped dark black pigment and chronic reparative ch...

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Autores principales: Aswani, Vijay H., Kim, Seung Lae
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2015
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Published online: October 2015
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4650995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26594168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000441248
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description A pencil core with an intact pencil tip was excised from the thigh of a 60-year-old male 53 years after a puncture wound. Histologic examination of the excised pencil core and the surrounding tissue revealed a foreign body reaction with abundant entrapped dark black pigment and chronic reparative changes, including dense sclerosis and focal granulation tissue formation.
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spelling pubmed-46509952015-11-20 Fifty-Three Years after a Pencil Puncture Wound Aswani, Vijay H. Kim, Seung Lae Case Rep Dermatol Published online: October 2015 A pencil core with an intact pencil tip was excised from the thigh of a 60-year-old male 53 years after a puncture wound. Histologic examination of the excised pencil core and the surrounding tissue revealed a foreign body reaction with abundant entrapped dark black pigment and chronic reparative changes, including dense sclerosis and focal granulation tissue formation. S. Karger AG 2015-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4650995/ /pubmed/26594168 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000441248 Text en Copyright © 2015 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-4.0 International License (CC BY-NC) (http://www.karger.com/Services/OpenAccessLicense). Usage and distribution for commercial purposes requires written permission.
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