Giant Mushroom-Like Cutaneous Cylindroma of the Head

BACKGROUND: Dermal cylindroma is a rare benign skin tumour. CASE REPORT: We report a giant stalked, mush-room-like cylindroma of the head-and-neck region in a 73-year-old female patient. A tumour was surgically removed, and the defect could be closed by a cheek transposition flap. CONCLUSION: The mu...

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Autores principales: Wollina, Uwe, Schönlebe, Jacqueline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Republic of Macedonia 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6236036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30455764
http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2018.401
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description BACKGROUND: Dermal cylindroma is a rare benign skin tumour. CASE REPORT: We report a giant stalked, mush-room-like cylindroma of the head-and-neck region in a 73-year-old female patient. A tumour was surgically removed, and the defect could be closed by a cheek transposition flap. CONCLUSION: The mushroom-like growth pattern has yet not been described for cylindroma.
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spelling pubmed-62360362018-11-19 Giant Mushroom-Like Cutaneous Cylindroma of the Head Wollina, Uwe Schönlebe, Jacqueline Open Access Maced J Med Sci Case Report BACKGROUND: Dermal cylindroma is a rare benign skin tumour. CASE REPORT: We report a giant stalked, mush-room-like cylindroma of the head-and-neck region in a 73-year-old female patient. A tumour was surgically removed, and the defect could be closed by a cheek transposition flap. CONCLUSION: The mushroom-like growth pattern has yet not been described for cylindroma. Republic of Macedonia 2018-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6236036/ /pubmed/30455764 http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2018.401 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Uwe Wollina, Jacqueline Schönlebe. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/CC BY-NC/4.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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title_short Giant Mushroom-Like Cutaneous Cylindroma of the Head
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6236036/
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