CASE REPORTS   

Chirurgia 2014 June;27(3):205-7

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language: English

Giant solitary dermal cylindroma of the nose skin

Karpouzis A. ¹, Sivridis E. ², Bounovas A. ³, Giatromanolaki A. ²

¹ Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Democritus’ University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece; ² Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Democritus’ University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece; ³ Deoartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Democritus’ University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Cylindroma is a benign tumour, characterized by basaloid cell islands, surrounded by a thick zone of hyaline. Entity is multiple or solitary, localized in head and neck as a rule. Only one solitary small nose lesion has been reported in the literature. An impressively giant, corrugated, red-blue and traversed by telangiectases, growth of the nose, histologicaly consistent with cylindroma, is reported. Our case constitutes the first literature report of giant solitary nose cylindroma and therefore, this pattern is involved in the differential diagnosis among nose skin tumours.