Background and aim: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease with multiple complications. Skin tag is a pedunculated papule, which is more common in women and has been suggested as a cutaneous marker of diabetes mellitus. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of diabetes mellitus in patients with skin tags.Materials and methods: This descriptive study was...

Background: Skin tags (achrochordons, fibroepithelial polyps) are pedunculated lesions which commonly occur in areas of skin fold such as the neck, the axillae, the eyelids. Case Presentation: Herein a large achrochordon of the left labium majus is presented. Total excision of the lesion was performed and histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of achrochordon. Conclusion: Large skin tags on gen...

A hard and bleeding anal and perianal mass stenotized the anus and required left-sided colostomy. Incisional biopsy showed a moderately differentiated spiniocellular carcinoma. Chemoradiotherapy treatment alone reduced significantly the mass.

Skin tags, or acrochordon, are one of the most common skin tumors, which are small, soft, skin-colored to drak brown, sessile and pedunculated papilloma (Choudhary, 2008). Most skin tags vary in size from 2 to 5 mm in diameter, and a few unusual giant variants can also be found in the literature (Choudhary, 2008; IIango et al., 2009; Eris Eken et al., 2014). In this study, we describe a rare ca...

To aid in the development of a long-range subcutaneous radio frequency identification tag to monitor the fate of sea lion pups, the dielectric properties of the cranial skin of young female otariids, and possible test subjects of similar size and age, or pigs (Sus scrofa) and sheep (Ovis aries) were obtained over a frequency range of 0.1-10 GHz at the base of their heads where the tag will be i...