Professional paper
Dermatomycosis in Cutaneous Tumors is a Predictor for Non-malignancy: A Cross-sectional Study
Leo Čabrijan
orcid.org/0000-0002-5867-3406
; Department of Dermatology, Clinical Hospital Centre, Rijeka, Croatia
Jasna Lipozenčić
; Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Cvečić
; Department of Dermatology, Universal Hospital Pula, Croatia
Mohammad Goldust
; Department of Dermatology, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of spores and/or hyphae in benign cutaneous tumors (CT) and compare their presence in malignant cutaneous tumors. In this cross-sectional study we evaluated 328 CTs positive for spores and/or hyphae. The results show that the greatest number of involved CTs which contained spores and/or hyphae were found in compound nevi 181 (55.18%) and seborrheic warts 61 (18.60%). No spores and/or hyphae were observed in the melanoma samples, and a very low prevalence was found in squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) (2; 0.61%) and basal cell carcinoma (BCC) (1; 0.30%). The presence of spores and/or hyphae could be a good indicator for non-malignancy, allowing differential diagnosis between benign CTs and SCCs or BCCs as well as between melanoma and nevi.
Keywords
spores; hyphae; cutaneous tumors
Hrčak ID:
290090
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Publication date:
20.11.2019.
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