Cutaneous Hybrid Tumor Composed of Epidermal Cyst and Cystic Pilomatricoma: Unusual Presentation in a Child

We report a rare case of cutaneous hybrid tumor composed of epidermal cyst and cystic pilomatricoma that presented in an unusual way in a child. A 14-year-old teen girl presented with a skin lesion on the inner side of the left arm, approximately at the level of the elbow. The lesion was initially o...

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Autores principales: Lamprou, Konstantinos, Plataras, Christos, Chorti, Maria, Christianakis, Efstratios
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5387885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28442881
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_62_15
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author Lamprou, Konstantinos
Plataras, Christos
Chorti, Maria
Christianakis, Efstratios
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description We report a rare case of cutaneous hybrid tumor composed of epidermal cyst and cystic pilomatricoma that presented in an unusual way in a child. A 14-year-old teen girl presented with a skin lesion on the inner side of the left arm, approximately at the level of the elbow. The lesion was initially observed 5 months before and was continuously increasing in size during that time resembling other benign or malignant cutaneous tumors.
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spelling pubmed-53878852017-04-25 Cutaneous Hybrid Tumor Composed of Epidermal Cyst and Cystic Pilomatricoma: Unusual Presentation in a Child Lamprou, Konstantinos Plataras, Christos Chorti, Maria Christianakis, Efstratios Int J Trichology Brief Communication We report a rare case of cutaneous hybrid tumor composed of epidermal cyst and cystic pilomatricoma that presented in an unusual way in a child. A 14-year-old teen girl presented with a skin lesion on the inner side of the left arm, approximately at the level of the elbow. The lesion was initially observed 5 months before and was continuously increasing in size during that time resembling other benign or malignant cutaneous tumors. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5387885/ /pubmed/28442881 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_62_15 Text en Copyright: © 2017 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-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.
spellingShingle Brief Communication
Lamprou, Konstantinos
Plataras, Christos
Chorti, Maria
Christianakis, Efstratios
Cutaneous Hybrid Tumor Composed of Epidermal Cyst and Cystic Pilomatricoma: Unusual Presentation in a Child
title Cutaneous Hybrid Tumor Composed of Epidermal Cyst and Cystic Pilomatricoma: Unusual Presentation in a Child
title_full Cutaneous Hybrid Tumor Composed of Epidermal Cyst and Cystic Pilomatricoma: Unusual Presentation in a Child
title_fullStr Cutaneous Hybrid Tumor Composed of Epidermal Cyst and Cystic Pilomatricoma: Unusual Presentation in a Child
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous Hybrid Tumor Composed of Epidermal Cyst and Cystic Pilomatricoma: Unusual Presentation in a Child
title_short Cutaneous Hybrid Tumor Composed of Epidermal Cyst and Cystic Pilomatricoma: Unusual Presentation in a Child
title_sort cutaneous hybrid tumor composed of epidermal cyst and cystic pilomatricoma: unusual presentation in a child
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5387885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28442881
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_62_15
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