Cytopathological findings of proliferating pilomatricoma misdiagnosed as a malignant parotid gland tumor

• Main Authors: Nozomu Kurose (Author), Manabu Yamashita (Author), Mariko Nakano (Author), Xin Guo (Author), Akihiro Shioya (Author), Satoko Nakada (Author), Hiroshi Minato (Author), Sohsuke Yamada (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Pilomatricoma is a relatively common benign cutaneous adnexal neoplasm with differentiation towards the hair matrix, inner sheath of hair follicle and hair cortex. Proliferating pilomatricoma is a rare variant of pilomatricoma that can rapidly increase and may be misidentified as...