Journal article
Preauricular pilomatrixoma: a diagnostic pitfall.
- Makek M Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
- Franklin DJ
- Fisch U
- 1989-10-01
Published in:
- Oral surgery, oral medicine, and oral pathology. - 1989
Adolescent
Age Factors
Diagnosis, Differential
Ear
Facial Neoplasms
Female
Humans
Parotid Gland
Retrospective Studies
Skin Neoplasms
English
Although pilomatrixomas are well known to dermatologists and dermatopathologists, surgeons encountering these lesions over the parotid gland frequently do not consider this benign neoplasm in the differential diagnosis. Presentation of a subcutaneous preauricular lesion, coupled with an erroneous cytologic diagnosis of malignancy, can potentially result in histologic "overdiagnosis" and more aggressive therapy than is required for these benign hair follicle neoplasms. A case is reported to illustrate this potential diagnostic trap, and a series of 206 cases collected at the University Hospital of Zurich from 1975 to 1987 is reviewed.
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1016/0030-4220(89)90144-8
- PMID 2797740
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/185456
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