{"title":"Auricle Pilomatricoma in Ear Lobule: A Case Report.","authors":"Mohammadreza Akhoundian Yazd, Ermia Mousavi Mohammadi, Mohammadreza Afzalzade","doi":"10.22038/IJORL.2023.66641.3281","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Skin tumors are prevalent in the head and neck especially auricle but pilomatricoma is extremely rare in ear lobule.</p><p><strong>Case report: </strong>A 7-year-old girl without a history of previous illness presented with a 1.5-<i>month history</i> of a lesion in the <i>right ear lobule</i> that tended to grow in size. It was a 2*2*2cm <i>round, slightly painful lesion</i> with <i>soft</i> tissue and light red in color that yielded bloody or <i>serous fluid on aspiration</i>. The lesion was enucleated. The diagnosis was pilomatricoma.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Although very rare, pilomatricoma should be considered as a differential diagnosis of ear lobule neoplasms.</p>","PeriodicalId":14607,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology","volume":"35 127","pages":"97-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10202165/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Iranian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22038/IJORL.2023.66641.3281","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Introduction: Skin tumors are prevalent in the head and neck especially auricle but pilomatricoma is extremely rare in ear lobule.
Case report: A 7-year-old girl without a history of previous illness presented with a 1.5-month history of a lesion in the right ear lobule that tended to grow in size. It was a 2*2*2cm round, slightly painful lesion with soft tissue and light red in color that yielded bloody or serous fluid on aspiration. The lesion was enucleated. The diagnosis was pilomatricoma.
Conclusion: Although very rare, pilomatricoma should be considered as a differential diagnosis of ear lobule neoplasms.