Malignant Pilomatricoma of the Lower Extremity: A Difficult and Rare Diagnosis

Malignant pilomatricoma is a rare cutaneous malignancy that is commonly found on the head and neck. We present a patient with malignant pilomatricoma of the lower extremity with intralesional calcification and giant cells, confirmed by histopathology. This patient’s case represents a clinically impo...

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Autores principales: Subramanyam, Chaitra, Dyrek, Paige, Yao, Xu, Kay, Martin H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8903812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35282549
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21957
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author Subramanyam, Chaitra
Dyrek, Paige
Yao, Xu
Kay, Martin H
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description Malignant pilomatricoma is a rare cutaneous malignancy that is commonly found on the head and neck. We present a patient with malignant pilomatricoma of the lower extremity with intralesional calcification and giant cells, confirmed by histopathology. This patient’s case represents a clinically important variation of malignant pilomatricoma in an uncommon anatomical location.
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spelling pubmed-89038122022-03-10 Malignant Pilomatricoma of the Lower Extremity: A Difficult and Rare Diagnosis Subramanyam, Chaitra Dyrek, Paige Yao, Xu Kay, Martin H Cureus Dermatology Malignant pilomatricoma is a rare cutaneous malignancy that is commonly found on the head and neck. We present a patient with malignant pilomatricoma of the lower extremity with intralesional calcification and giant cells, confirmed by histopathology. This patient’s case represents a clinically important variation of malignant pilomatricoma in an uncommon anatomical location. Cureus 2022-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8903812/ /pubmed/35282549 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21957 Text en Copyright © 2022, Subramanyam 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.
spellingShingle Dermatology
Subramanyam, Chaitra
Dyrek, Paige
Yao, Xu
Kay, Martin H
Malignant Pilomatricoma of the Lower Extremity: A Difficult and Rare Diagnosis
title Malignant Pilomatricoma of the Lower Extremity: A Difficult and Rare Diagnosis
title_full Malignant Pilomatricoma of the Lower Extremity: A Difficult and Rare Diagnosis
title_fullStr Malignant Pilomatricoma of the Lower Extremity: A Difficult and Rare Diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Malignant Pilomatricoma of the Lower Extremity: A Difficult and Rare Diagnosis
title_short Malignant Pilomatricoma of the Lower Extremity: A Difficult and Rare Diagnosis
title_sort malignant pilomatricoma of the lower extremity: a difficult and rare diagnosis
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8903812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35282549
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21957
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