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The scalp tumor - turban tumor syndrome: case study

Stjepan Grabovac orcid.org/0000-0002-2190-7029 ; Opća bolnica Bjelovar, Odjel za otorinolaringologiju
Đurđica Grabovac orcid.org/0000-0002-2190-7029 ; Visoka tehnička škola Bjelovar, Studij sestrinstva
Vesna Malčić Dalipi ; Opća bolnica Bjelovar, Odjel za otorinolaringologiju
Dubravka Bobonj-Hižak ; Opća bolnica Bjelovar, Odjel za patologiju
Rajko Komlenac ; Opća bolnica Bjelovar, Odjel za patologiju

Abstract

The appearance of multiple tumors of the skin adnexa was first described in the late nineteenth century and today is known as the Turban Tumor Syndrome, or by authors who described it, the Brooke-Spiegler Syndrome. It is twice more common in women, usually in the first or second decade of life in the form of skin nodules localized mainly in the skin of the scalp. The tumors reach their full size after fifty years of age, when patients are most likely to visit their doctor. They grow for a long period of time without creating difficulties. Turban tumors show typical histology and their treatment is exclusively surgical. In this paper, we present a case of a patient who had multiple skin tumors in the skin adnexa, with the largest one being 23 cm in diameter and weighing 2200 grams. Pathohistological morphological features: proliferating pilar-trichilemmal cyst.

Keywords

scalp tumor; turban tumor syndrome

Hrčak ID:

159885

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/159885

Publication date:

7.6.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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