Publications by authors named "K L Carlson-Sweet"
Introduction: The atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX) is considered by most authorities to represent a superficial or minimally invasive variant of malignant fibrous histiocytoma that most often presents as a solitary nodule on the sun-exposed skin of the elderly. Among the rarest variants is the clear cell AFX, a lesion which raises consideration to a differential diagnosis encompassing a variety of neoplastic and non-neoplastic clear cell proliferations.
Methods: We describe three cases of a distinctive cutaneous neoplasm arising in the sun-exposed skin of elderly patients.
Article Synopsis
- A pore of Winer is a benign skin tumor that originates from hair follicles.
- In a particular case, the removal of a pore of Winer unexpectedly showed trichoid basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer.
- The paper discusses the history of these tumors, how to differentiate them clinically and histologically, and suggests reasons for finding cancer cells in this benign growth.