Giant seborrheic keratosis of the genitalia with an unusual histopathological finding

Seborrheic keratosis (SK) of the external genitalia is a rare entity which can be easily misinterpreted as genital warts. Histopathology is a useful tool to make a diagnosis in such cases. We report a 62-year-old male who presented with multiple polypoidal lesions exclusively on the external genital...

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Autores principales: Seethalakshmi, Ganga Vellaisamy, Venugopal, Swetha, Nanjappachetty, Govindarajan, Kannan, Gopalan
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30148273
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.IJSTD_95_16
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author Seethalakshmi, Ganga Vellaisamy
Venugopal, Swetha
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Kannan, Gopalan
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description Seborrheic keratosis (SK) of the external genitalia is a rare entity which can be easily misinterpreted as genital warts. Histopathology is a useful tool to make a diagnosis in such cases. We report a 62-year-old male who presented with multiple polypoidal lesions exclusively on the external genitalia. Histopathology was suggestive of hyperkeratotic type of SK which showed some unusual features.
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spelling pubmed-60859412018-08-24 Giant seborrheic keratosis of the genitalia with an unusual histopathological finding Seethalakshmi, Ganga Vellaisamy Venugopal, Swetha Nanjappachetty, Govindarajan Kannan, Gopalan Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Case Report Seborrheic keratosis (SK) of the external genitalia is a rare entity which can be easily misinterpreted as genital warts. Histopathology is a useful tool to make a diagnosis in such cases. We report a 62-year-old male who presented with multiple polypoidal lesions exclusively on the external genitalia. Histopathology was suggestive of hyperkeratotic type of SK which showed some unusual features. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC6085941/ /pubmed/30148273 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.IJSTD_95_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS 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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Seethalakshmi, Ganga Vellaisamy
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Nanjappachetty, Govindarajan
Kannan, Gopalan
Giant seborrheic keratosis of the genitalia with an unusual histopathological finding
title Giant seborrheic keratosis of the genitalia with an unusual histopathological finding
title_full Giant seborrheic keratosis of the genitalia with an unusual histopathological finding
title_fullStr Giant seborrheic keratosis of the genitalia with an unusual histopathological finding
title_full_unstemmed Giant seborrheic keratosis of the genitalia with an unusual histopathological finding
title_short Giant seborrheic keratosis of the genitalia with an unusual histopathological finding
title_sort giant seborrheic keratosis of the genitalia with an unusual histopathological finding
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085941/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.IJSTD_95_16
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