Stony Hard Back Swelling-Diagnostic Dilemma

ISSN: 2147-0634
Yayın Aralığı: Yılda 4 Sayı
Başlangıç: 2012
Yayıncı: Effect Publishing Agency ( EPA )

Subcutaneous back swellings like lipoma, neurofibroma and sebaceous cysts are common clinical entities. Swellings which are hard include calcified sebaceous cysts, calcinosis cutis and occasionally sarcomas. We present here a patient with a stony hard swelling over back with an unusual histopathological diagnosis.

Keywords:

Pilomatricoma giant, benign,

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