Successful treatment of a keratoacanthoma in a young patient with the application of topical 5% imiquimod cream

Keratoacanthomas (KA) are epithelial tumors that present as rapidly evolving nodules with a central hyperkeratotic plug and occasionally show signs of spontaneous regression. A 21‐year‐old patient strongly refused the diagnostic biopsy and insisted on a nonsurgical treatment. He was successfully tre...

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Autores principales: Plachouri, Kerasia‐Maria, Mulita, Francesk, Bousis, Dimitrios, Tchabashvili, Levan, Liolis, Elias, Kaplanis, Charalampos, Perdikaris, Ioannis, Iliopoulos, Fotios, Verras, Georgios‐Ioannis, Tolias, Vasilios, Georgiou, Sophia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8572324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34765197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4920
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Sumario:Keratoacanthomas (KA) are epithelial tumors that present as rapidly evolving nodules with a central hyperkeratotic plug and occasionally show signs of spontaneous regression. A 21‐year‐old patient strongly refused the diagnostic biopsy and insisted on a nonsurgical treatment. He was successfully treated with imiquimod 5% cream.

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