A large proliferating trichilemmal cyst masquerading as squamous cell carcinoma

• Main Authors: Kiran Alam (Author), Kanupriya Gupta (Author), Veena Maheshwari (Author), Manoranjan Varshney (Author), Anshu Jain (Author), Arshad Hafeez Khan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Proliferating trichilemmal cyst (PTC), a rare benign tumor, is a fascinating follicular neoplasm. It occurs on head and neck region of elderly women and its histologic hallmark is trichilemmal keratinization. A 70-year-old female presented to skin outpatient department with complaints of a slowly gr...