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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author Plachouri, Kerasia‐Maria
Mulita, Francesk
Bousis, Dimitrios
Tchabashvili, Levan
Liolis, Elias
Kaplanis, Charalampos
Perdikaris, Ioannis
Iliopoulos, Fotios
Verras, Georgios‐Ioannis
Tolias, Vasilios
Georgiou, Sophia
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Mulita, Francesk
Bousis, Dimitrios
Tchabashvili, Levan
Liolis, Elias
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description 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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spelling pubmed-85723242021-11-10 Successful treatment of a keratoacanthoma in a young patient with the application of topical 5% imiquimod cream Plachouri, Kerasia‐Maria Mulita, Francesk Bousis, Dimitrios Tchabashvili, Levan Liolis, Elias Kaplanis, Charalampos Perdikaris, Ioannis Iliopoulos, Fotios Verras, Georgios‐Ioannis Tolias, Vasilios Georgiou, Sophia Clin Case Rep Clinical Images 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. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8572324/ /pubmed/34765197 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4920 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Clinical Images
Plachouri, Kerasia‐Maria
Mulita, Francesk
Bousis, Dimitrios
Tchabashvili, Levan
Liolis, Elias
Kaplanis, Charalampos
Perdikaris, Ioannis
Iliopoulos, Fotios
Verras, Georgios‐Ioannis
Tolias, Vasilios
Georgiou, Sophia
Successful treatment of a keratoacanthoma in a young patient with the application of topical 5% imiquimod cream
title Successful treatment of a keratoacanthoma in a young patient with the application of topical 5% imiquimod cream
title_full Successful treatment of a keratoacanthoma in a young patient with the application of topical 5% imiquimod cream
title_fullStr Successful treatment of a keratoacanthoma in a young patient with the application of topical 5% imiquimod cream
title_full_unstemmed Successful treatment of a keratoacanthoma in a young patient with the application of topical 5% imiquimod cream
title_short Successful treatment of a keratoacanthoma in a young patient with the application of topical 5% imiquimod cream
title_sort successful treatment of a keratoacanthoma in a young patient with the application of topical 5% imiquimod cream
topic Clinical Images
url 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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