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Quiz Case 2
LT Dimitry B. Goufman, MC, USNR;
CDR George L. Murrell, MC, USN;
CDR Dale V. Watkins, DC, USN
Portsmouth, Va
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2001;127:218-220.
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A 19-MONTH-OLD healthy Hispanic boy presented with an 8-mm asymptomatic
nasal mass near the right alar margin at the junction of the lobule and the
soft triangle (Figure 1). The mass
had been present for several months and was slowly growing. The overlying
skin was normal, with small, dilated vessels. On palpation, it was freely
mobile, firm, and nontender. A representative section of the hematoxylin-eosin–stained
specimen is shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3.
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Figure 2.
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Figure 3.
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What is your diagnosis?
Diagnosis: Pilomatricoma (calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe)
Pilomatricomas, also called pilomatrixomas
or calcifying epitheliomas of Malherbe, are benign
skin neoplasms of hair follicle origin. First described in 1880 by Malherbe
and Chenantais,1 the tumors were believed
to be of sebaceous cell origin. In 1961, Forbis and Helwig2
renamed the lesion pilomatricoma. . . [Full Text of this Article]
THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES
Pilomatricoma of the Head and Neck: A Retrospective Review of 179 Cases
Lan et al.
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2003;129:1327-1330.
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