Apocrine Carcinoma Arising in a Sebaceous Nevus of the Scalp in a 24-Year-Old Female

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Corliss A. E. Best Timothy J. Best

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Timothy J. Best
Division of Clinical Sciences, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

A B S T R A C T

A case of a 24-year-old female with a two-year history of an intermittently crusting lesion of her scalp is presented. The relatively innocuous-appearing sebaceous nevus, present since birth, made a malignant transformation to an apocrine carcinoma, betrayed by intermittent crusting of a portion of the hamartoma. Current management of sebaceous nevus and apocrine carcinoma is discussed.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Thu 21, May 2020
Accepted: Fri 05, Jun 2020
Published: Mon 22, Jun 2020

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© 2023 Timothy J. Best. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.GSCR.2010.01.01