A 38-year-old Caucasian male presented to our department with 8 months of progressive painful subcutaneous nodules and abscesses in occipital scalp that caused numerous areas of alopecia (Figure 1). He had received treatment with isotretinoin due to acne conglobata two years back. Skinbiopsy specimen revealed a deep, chronic inflammatory infiltrate affecting the inferior portion of hair follicl...

Sebaceous carcinoma is a rare and aggressive skin cancer that originates in the cells of sebaceous glands. It mainly affects fair-skinned chronically sun-exposed people, commonly located on areas such as face, scalp, neck. Diagnosis based clinical evaluation biopsy. The treatment choice Mohs surgery and, some cases, adjuvant radiotherapy. prognosis generally good, but disease may be recurrent a...

INTRODUCTION Among malignant melanoma lesions, those occurring on the scalp and neck have a particularly poor prognosis. In this case report, we present the largest melanoma of the head and neck and one of the largest melanomas of any anatomic site reported in the literature to date. METHODS The biopsy revealed left scalp melanoma with a Breslow's thickness of at least 14 mm, and final needle...

BACKGROUND Crusted scabies is a severe, hyperkeratotic, psoriasiform disorder associated with immune suppression. Affected individuals typically present with crusted hyperkeratotic lesions in a variety of locations. This condition can lead to severe complications: institutional outbreaks and secondary bacterial infections associated with sepsis and high mortality. MAIN OBSERVATIONS A 37-year-...

PURPOSE The aim of this paper is to report the treatment of angiosarcoma of the scalp. High-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy with an individual mold applicator is presented. CASE DESCRIPTION A case of a 75-year-old male will be presented with multicentric lesions over the scalp in the temple and crown region. Biopsy diagnosis was angiosarcoma of the scalp, nonoperable. The patient was qualified ...

BACKGROUND The standard methods used to diagnose scalp and hair disorders (eg, simple clinical inspection, pull test, biopsy) vary in sensitivity, reproducibility, and invasiveness. Studies on a few entities suggest that use of dermoscopy can improve clinical accuracy, but further investigation is needed. OBJECTIVES We sought to: (1) characterize features of several nontumoral scalp and hair ...

A 30-year-old female presented with multiple, erythematous, velvety, slowly growing, asymptomatic nodules on the scalp of two-year duration. Biopsy revealed a vascular tumor with arborizing blood vessels arranged in a retiform pattern, lined with hobnail endothelial cells that stained positively with CD34, with few intravascular papillae. Two year follow up of the case after surgical excision s...

Skin metastases of lung cancer are rare. They are symptoms of progressive disease and usually a sign of a poor prognosis. We report a case of 69-years-old man with no significant medical history, never smoker, which consulted a dermatologist for scalp nodules that appeared for more than 16 months in the scalp and gradually and slowly increased in size which the largest measure at admission betw...

Primary cutaneous mucinous carcinoma is a rare malignant tumor that originates from the deepest portion of the eccrine sweat duct. Common sites of involvement are the face and scalp. Biopsy shows dermal epithelial cell islands embedded in mucin pools separated by fibrous septae. It is difficult to differentiate this tumor histologically from metastatic adenocarcinoma. Recurrence after excision ...

Angiosarcoma (AS) is a rare and aggressive vascular neoplasm with very poor prognosis. Patients with extensive cutaneous AS who are not surgical candidates have very limited options since there is no standard treatment. Treatment options include radiation, chemotherapy, and angiogenesis inhibitor with varying success rates. Here, we report a case an 88 year old patient with extensive scalp angi...