A Case of Eccrine Mucinous Carcinoma Involving Scalp

The report presents a case of a 67-year-old female with a long-standing lump on the scalp. After its excision the histopathology revealed consistency with eccrine mucinous carcinoma. These neoplasms are quite rare with only around 100 cases reported since 1951. The report concludes the importance of...

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Autores principales: Saleem, Ramsha, Vaidya, Sachin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430089
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16469
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description The report presents a case of a 67-year-old female with a long-standing lump on the scalp. After its excision the histopathology revealed consistency with eccrine mucinous carcinoma. These neoplasms are quite rare with only around 100 cases reported since 1951. The report concludes the importance of encouraging follow-up of cutaneous lesions among patients as well as ongoing research to better identify and manage the tumor.
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spelling pubmed-83726682021-08-23 A Case of Eccrine Mucinous Carcinoma Involving Scalp Saleem, Ramsha Vaidya, Sachin Cureus Dermatology The report presents a case of a 67-year-old female with a long-standing lump on the scalp. After its excision the histopathology revealed consistency with eccrine mucinous carcinoma. These neoplasms are quite rare with only around 100 cases reported since 1951. The report concludes the importance of encouraging follow-up of cutaneous lesions among patients as well as ongoing research to better identify and manage the tumor. Cureus 2021-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8372668/ /pubmed/34430089 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16469 Text en Copyright © 2021, Saleem et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr A Case of Eccrine Mucinous Carcinoma Involving Scalp
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Eccrine Mucinous Carcinoma Involving Scalp
title_short A Case of Eccrine Mucinous Carcinoma Involving Scalp
title_sort case of eccrine mucinous carcinoma involving scalp
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430089
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16469
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