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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 17-19 |
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“Pigmented pilomatricoma”: A rare histopathological variant
Neeti Goyal, Ritu Mehta, Arun Gupta, Kunal Tiwari
Department of Pathology, INHS Asvini, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Neeti Goyal
Department of Pathology, INHS Asvini, Mumbai 400005, Maharashtra.
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijhi.IJHI_4_19
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Pilomatricoma is one of the common cutaneous benign adnexal tumors but the pigmented variant is rare among them. This is a case report of pigmented pilomatricoma in a young girl which has grown as a swelling over the supraclavicular region for 3 months and the histopathological features include basaloid cells and eosinophilic shadow cells with melanin deposition, calcification, and foreign body type giant cells. |
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