Hippokratia 2007, 11(2):89-91
S Triaridis, S Papadopoulos, A Printza, E Grosshans, B Cribier
Department of Otolaryngology, Hippokratio General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
2nd Academic Otolaryngology Department, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Department of Pathology, General Hospital of Veria, Veria, Greece
Clinique Dermatologique, Universite Louis Pasteur, Faculte de Medecine, Strasbourg, France
Abstract
Adnexal tumors of the hair follicle can be regarded as lesions that show similar differentiation to one or more portions of the hair follicle. Trichoblastic carcinoma is a rare malignant adnexal tumor, which usually occurs on the scalp.We report a case of a 65 years old man with a painless irregular mass of the posterior surface of the right pinna, which was slowly growing over a 5-year period. He had a history of a similar lesion on the same site, which was removed 8 years before he presented to us. We excised the lesion and the defect was covered with an advancing flap. Because of the histology result the patient was re-operated and reviewed for over 3 years and there wasn’t any sign of recurrence.
Keywords: malignant pilar tumor, pilar carcinoma, trichoblastic carcinoma
Correspoding author: Triaridis S, 215 Labraki str., Thessaloniki, 543 52, Greece, fax. ++ 302310 904900, e-mail: triaridi@med.auth.gr