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Seborrheic keratosis of the cheek simulating squamous cell carcinoma

INTRODUCTION: Seborrheic keratoses are benign tumours that occur electively on the head, neck and trunk. It can be confused on its clinical appearance with other skin tumours and it is the histological examination that establishes the diagnosis. We report a case of seborrheic keratosis simulating sq...

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Autores principales: Opoko, Ulrich, Sabr, Ayoub, Raiteb, Mohamed, Maadane, Amina, Slimani, Faiçal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8274291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34280971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2021.106175
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author Opoko, Ulrich
Sabr, Ayoub
Raiteb, Mohamed
Maadane, Amina
Slimani, Faiçal
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description INTRODUCTION: Seborrheic keratoses are benign tumours that occur electively on the head, neck and trunk. It can be confused on its clinical appearance with other skin tumours and it is the histological examination that establishes the diagnosis. We report a case of seborrheic keratosis simulating squamous cell carcinoma. OBSERVATION: A 62-year-old woman consulted for a budding right jugal lesion that had been evolving for 6 months. Clinical examination found a right jugal budding lesion with crusts on its surface, pedunculated, surrounded by a hyperpigmented halo at its base, firm to palpation, painless and non bleeding on contact. An initial biopsy of the lesion for histological examination confirmed the diagnosis, followed by complete surgical excision. DISCUSSION: Seborrheic keratoses are benign tumours that occur mainly in subjects over 50 years of age. They occur electively on the trunk, head and neck. Its clinical aspect is generally typical but sometimes misleading, as found in our case; only histology allows to make the diagnosis of certainty.
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spelling pubmed-82742912021-07-19 Seborrheic keratosis of the cheek simulating squamous cell carcinoma Opoko, Ulrich Sabr, Ayoub Raiteb, Mohamed Maadane, Amina Slimani, Faiçal Int J Surg Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Seborrheic keratoses are benign tumours that occur electively on the head, neck and trunk. It can be confused on its clinical appearance with other skin tumours and it is the histological examination that establishes the diagnosis. We report a case of seborrheic keratosis simulating squamous cell carcinoma. OBSERVATION: A 62-year-old woman consulted for a budding right jugal lesion that had been evolving for 6 months. Clinical examination found a right jugal budding lesion with crusts on its surface, pedunculated, surrounded by a hyperpigmented halo at its base, firm to palpation, painless and non bleeding on contact. An initial biopsy of the lesion for histological examination confirmed the diagnosis, followed by complete surgical excision. DISCUSSION: Seborrheic keratoses are benign tumours that occur mainly in subjects over 50 years of age. They occur electively on the trunk, head and neck. Its clinical aspect is generally typical but sometimes misleading, as found in our case; only histology allows to make the diagnosis of certainty. Elsevier 2021-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8274291/ /pubmed/34280971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2021.106175 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Opoko, Ulrich
Sabr, Ayoub
Raiteb, Mohamed
Maadane, Amina
Slimani, Faiçal
Seborrheic keratosis of the cheek simulating squamous cell carcinoma
title Seborrheic keratosis of the cheek simulating squamous cell carcinoma
title_full Seborrheic keratosis of the cheek simulating squamous cell carcinoma
title_fullStr Seborrheic keratosis of the cheek simulating squamous cell carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Seborrheic keratosis of the cheek simulating squamous cell carcinoma
title_short Seborrheic keratosis of the cheek simulating squamous cell carcinoma
title_sort seborrheic keratosis of the cheek simulating squamous cell carcinoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8274291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34280971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2021.106175
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