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  • Title: Giant proliferating pilomatricoma; report of a rare entity.
    Author: Grohs RL, Mesbah Ardakani N, Harvey NT, Luczak BP, Wood BA.
    Journal: Australas J Dermatol; 2017 Aug; 58(3):e91-e93. PubMed ID: 27301983.
    Abstract:
    Proliferating pilomatricoma is a benign tumour and a rare variant of pilomatricoma that has the potential for local recurrence if incompletely excised. We report a case of giant proliferating pilomatricoma on the forearm of a 66-year-old woman. This tumour was unusually large and the presence of ulceration and rapid growth raised clinical suspicion of malignancy. The identification of shadow or ghost cells is a good clue to matrical differentiation, which can be confirmed by β-catenin immunostaining.
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