منابع مشابه
Head and neck pilomatrixoma in children.
OBJECTIVE To provide a review of the current information on the etiology, clinical presentation, management, and outcome of pilomatrixoma of the head and neck in children. DESIGN Retrospective review. SETTING A tertiary care pediatric center. PATIENTS Fifty-one pediatric patients with a diagnosis of pilomatrixoma of the head and neck. INTERVENTION All patients underwent excision of pilo...
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Malherbe and Chenantais were the first to report a pilomatrixoma in 1880. They described a calcifying epithelioma, believing it to be a sebaceous gland tumor. Since 1905, this uncommon neoplasia has been called Malherbe’s calcifying epithelioma. Numerous studies suggest that this tumor stems from the external sheath of hair follicles. In 1961, Forbis and Helwig proposed the term pilomatrixoma, ...
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Pilomatrixoma is an uncommon neoplasm which occurs most frequently in the head and neck region. It usually presents as a slowly growing dermal or subcutaneous mass. Unfamiliarity with this lesion may lead the physician to mistake it for more common infectious or neoplastic processes. Most pilomatrixomas are benign and are adequately treated by local excision. Since a spectrum of clinical and hi...
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Pilomatrixomas are benign neoplasms of the hair follicle, presenting as a mass in the head and neck region. Those arising from the parotid region may pose a diagnostic challenge. We present six patients (age range 6 to 68 years) with pilomatrixoma in the head and neck region. The lesions were located in the preauricular region in two cases, and in the periorbital region, the forehead, the neck,...
متن کاملPilomatrixoma of the head and neck in children.
Pilomatrixoma, also known as calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe, is a benign tumor of hair cell origin. It is an unusual, but not particularly rare, tumor. Fifty percent or more of pilomatrixomas occur in the head and neck, and 40% occur in patients under 10 years of age. Pilomatrixomas may be mistaken for cysts, calcified lymph nodes, calcified hematomas or hemangiomas, or parotid gland tumors...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nepalese Journal of ENT Head and Neck Surgery
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2091-0843,2091-0835
DOI: 10.3126/njenthns.v3i1.8181