Keratoacanthoma-Like Squamous Cell Carcinoma Within the Fibroepithelial Polyp

Authors: Schwartz, Robert A.; Tarlow, Mordechai M.; Lambert, W. Clark

Source: Dermatologic Surgery, Volume 30, Supplement 2, February 2004 , pp. 349-350(2)

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Abstract:

Acrochordons (skin tags) are often considered clinically insignificant cutaneous redundancies that should be removed and destroyed with no histopathologic analysis performed. One rarely finds another neoplasm within an acrochordon. We describe a patient with an acrochordon that contained a squamous cell carcinoma that had features resembling a keratoacanthoma. This is the first time to our knowledge that an invasive squamous cell carcinoma has been described within an acrochordon.

R. A. SCHWARTZ, MD, MPH, M. M. TARLOW, MD, AND W. C. LAMBERT MD, PHD HAVE INDICATED NO SIGNIFICANT INTEREST WITH COMMERCIAL SUPPORTERS.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1524-4725.2004.30086.x

Affiliations: 1: Dermatology and Pathology, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey

Publication date: 2004-02-01