A SEBACEOUS HORN.

A Case of Sebaceous Horn

A Hindu Brahmin male, a priest by profession, aged about 65, a resident of a neighbouring village, presented himself to this dispensary in July 1930 for the treatment of a horny growth, which was projecting outwards from the middle of the left side of his chest, like a finger, 2-ginches in length; the distal part was bent a little downwards. The patient stated that about a year ago the tumour a...

Sebaceous Horn Penis

The curled sebaceous horn

The mysterious sebaceous horn (devil's horn) is a historically perplexing phenomenon of unknown etiology. It classically occurs on the sun-exposed areas of the face and hands and consists of a keratin mound with a benign base in most cases and squamous cell carcinoma occurring in about 20% of patients.

Cerebriform nevus sebaceous: A rare clinical variant of nevus sebaceous

A 30-year-old Caucasian female presented with a hairless plaque on her head. The patient admitted that she had this asymptomatic lesion since birth. However, the patient complained that the size of the lesion had gradually increased in the last ten years. The physical examination of the patient revealed a firm, well defined, pink-orange coloured, oval, alopecic plaque with cerebriform surface m...

Sebaceous Carcinoma Arising from the Nevus Sebaceous

431 ImageS nosis from basal cell carcinoma originating from the sebaceous gland. In the erythematous mass containing the nevus sebaceous, a wide excision was performed with a safety margin of 5 mm. A frozen section biopsy showed that there were no tumor cells on the resection margin. Following the resection, scalp defects of 2.5×5.0 cm in size remained (Fig. 2). The defects were reconstructed u...