Giant aggressive forehead tumor: A 15-year follow-up

Proliferating trichilemmal tumors are rare tumors that originate from adnexal structures – specifically from the outer root sheaths of hair follicles. These tumors can be benign or malignant. We report a rare case of a giant aggressive forehead trichilemmal tumor that was paradoxically benign on pat...

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Autores principales: Challita, Raymond, Halabi, Said
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6755257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31579496
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2019.1172
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description Proliferating trichilemmal tumors are rare tumors that originate from adnexal structures – specifically from the outer root sheaths of hair follicles. These tumors can be benign or malignant. We report a rare case of a giant aggressive forehead trichilemmal tumor that was paradoxically benign on pathology. It was surgically excised and followed-up for 15 years.
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spelling pubmed-67552572019-10-02 Giant aggressive forehead tumor: A 15-year follow-up Challita, Raymond Halabi, Said Clin Pract Case Report Proliferating trichilemmal tumors are rare tumors that originate from adnexal structures – specifically from the outer root sheaths of hair follicles. These tumors can be benign or malignant. We report a rare case of a giant aggressive forehead trichilemmal tumor that was paradoxically benign on pathology. It was surgically excised and followed-up for 15 years. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2019-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6755257/ /pubmed/31579496 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2019.1172 Text en ©Copyright: the Author(s), 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (by-nc 4.0) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Giant aggressive forehead tumor: A 15-year follow-up
title Giant aggressive forehead tumor: A 15-year follow-up
title_full Giant aggressive forehead tumor: A 15-year follow-up
title_fullStr Giant aggressive forehead tumor: A 15-year follow-up
title_full_unstemmed Giant aggressive forehead tumor: A 15-year follow-up
title_short Giant aggressive forehead tumor: A 15-year follow-up
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6755257/
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