BACKGROUND Although plastic surgeons daily encounter various facial tumors in the field, reports limited on face are scarce. In our study, we want to provide basic epidemiologic data to help clinicians to decide the proper management for their patients. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients including age and gender, location and size of the tumor, histopathologic...

Study Sex/Age (yr) Site Size (cm) Krausen et al. (1974) [1] Male/47 Parotid 7×6×5 Sasaki et al. (1976) [2] Male/21 Preauricular 8×8×5 Rothman et al. (1976) [3] Female/56 Chin 15 Brandner and Bunkis (1986) [4] Male/18 Preauricular 6×5×4 Arole et al. (1983) [5] Female/15 Chin 5.5 Sevin et al. (1995) [6] Male/34 Ear 5×4×4 Aslan et al. (1996) [7] Female/63 Preauricular Right arm Left arm Left forea...

Pilomatricomas are relatively rare tumors of ectodermal origin from the outer root sheath cell of the hair follicle. They are usually asymptomatic, solitary, firm or hard, freely mobile, dermal or subcutaneous nodules. The purpose of this article is to present a case that illustrates the diagnostic difficulty encountered by oral surgeons and pathologists and to review the literature regarding p...

© 2012 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1450 Journal Compilation © 2012 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Skin metastasis of ovarian carcinoma is rare (1). Some cases show umbilical metastasis, known as Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule (2). Other cutaneous metastases of ovarian carcinoma include pilomatricoma-like (3) and cauliflower-type (4) variants. Only one case of nodular cutaneous m...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of various types of cutaneous appendage tumors in our practice. METHOD This is a partly retrospective and partly prospective study conducted at the Department of Pathology, Histopathology Section, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi between 1st January 1997 and 31st December 2001. RESULTS One hundred sixty six skin appendage tumors were diagnosed d...