Pilomatricoma Mimicking Ruptured Epidermal Cyst in a Middle Aged Woman

Pilomatricoma is a benign tumor arising from the hair matrical cells. Most pilomatricomas appear in the first two decades of life as a solitary skin to a bluish colored nodule on head-neck area with an occasional sign of inflammation. Here, we present a case of pilomatricoma which appeared at 36 yea...

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Autores principales: Sarkar, Sudip, Kunal, Pranaya, Chowdhury, Barnali, Ghosh, Kisalay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4763703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26955103
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.174035
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author Sarkar, Sudip
Kunal, Pranaya
Chowdhury, Barnali
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description Pilomatricoma is a benign tumor arising from the hair matrical cells. Most pilomatricomas appear in the first two decades of life as a solitary skin to a bluish colored nodule on head-neck area with an occasional sign of inflammation. Here, we present a case of pilomatricoma which appeared at 36 years of age with a history of recurrent inflammation and discharge mimicking ruptured epidermal cyst.
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spelling pubmed-47637032016-03-07 Pilomatricoma Mimicking Ruptured Epidermal Cyst in a Middle Aged Woman Sarkar, Sudip Kunal, Pranaya Chowdhury, Barnali Ghosh, Kisalay Indian J Dermatol Case Report Pilomatricoma is a benign tumor arising from the hair matrical cells. Most pilomatricomas appear in the first two decades of life as a solitary skin to a bluish colored nodule on head-neck area with an occasional sign of inflammation. Here, we present a case of pilomatricoma which appeared at 36 years of age with a history of recurrent inflammation and discharge mimicking ruptured epidermal cyst. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4763703/ /pubmed/26955103 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.174035 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Pilomatricoma Mimicking Ruptured Epidermal Cyst in a Middle Aged Woman
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4763703/
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