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Fatima Zahra Nasreddine1, Fouzia Hali1, Soumiya Chiheb1.
Abstract
Pilomatricoma is a common and benign skin tumor of childhood arising from the hair follicle matrix. It is an often misunderstood adnexal tumor, confused with other skin lesions. The most common sites of pilomatricome are the head and the neck. The aim of this study was to report a series of 22 cases with unusual forms collected in the dermatology department from January 2006 to May 2015. The study included 16 women and 6 men. The average age was 23.3 years (4- 80 years). Cervicofacial location was observed in 12 cases, 2 patients had multiple locations, a 4 year-old boy had frontotemporal location, a 14 year-old girl had face and forearm location and a 48 year-old patient had subungual location. Clinical features were typical in all cases, with subcutaneous nodules with a stony-hard consistency. All patients underwent excision of nodules under local anesthesia. Histological study supported a completely excised Malherbe's mummified tumor without malignancy. No patients relapsed. The originality of our study lies in the presence of exceptional locations in laterovertebral region, on limbs and in the subungual region and of unusual age of onset (80 year-old) as well as the presence of multiple tumor locations reported in 2 children.Entities:
Keywords: Pilimatrixoma; arm; calcified epithelioma of Malherbe
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27516819 PMCID: PMC4963180 DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2016.23.254.8674
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pan Afr Med J
Figure 1Localisation des members
Figure 2Localisation fronto-temporale
Figure 3Localisation multiples au niveau du visage
Figure 4Pilomatricome sous unguéal
Figure 5Aspect histologique
Figure 6Excision chirurgicale
Figure 7Aspect macroscopique après excision chirurgicale