
Psödobüllöz Anetodermik Pilomatrikoma
Author(s) -
Sevgi Akarsu,
Turna İlknur,
Melike Kibar,
Özlem Özbağçıvan,
Erdener Özer,
Emel Fetil
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
deri hastalıkları ve frengi arşivi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1019-214X
DOI - 10.4274/turkderm.83604
Subject(s) - medicine
Pilomatricoma (PM) is an asymptomatic, slowly growing, benign skin tumour originating from primitive cells of the hair matrix and hair shaft and appears mostly on the head, neck, and the upper extremities. Typical lesion is usually characterized by a solitary, firm, deep-seated dermal or subcutaneous nodule, covered by normal or erythematous skin, and usually varying in size from 0.5 to 3 cm. Bullous appearance can occur on the lesions of bullous PM and anetodermic PM which are located in the rare atypical forms of PM. Here, we present an 11-year-old girl with an anetodermic PM on her right arm that showed thick-walled flaccid bullous formation over it