AI Article Synopsis
- Osteonevus of Nanta is a rare condition where bone forms abnormally within a skin nevus.
- Very few cases have been documented in medical literature.
- In a reported case, a 52-year-old woman had a nodule on her left eyebrow, and a simple surgical excision successfully treated it.
Article Abstract
Osteonevus of Nanta is a rare histopathological finding in which there is an ectopic bone formation in intradermal nevus. Very few cases have been reported so far in the literature. We present a case of osteonevus of Nanta, which occurred as a nodule over the left eyebrow in a 52-year-old female patient. Simple excision proved to be curative in the present case.
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