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KMID : 0363219760140020173
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Korean Journal of Dermatology
1976 Volume.14 No. 2 p.173 ~ p.178
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A Case of Subepidermal Calcified Nodules
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Abstract
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Subepidermal calcified nodules is a special form of idiopathic calcinosis circumscipta with its distinct clinical and histopathologic features, which was originally described by Winer(1952) as solitary congenital nodular calkification of the skin. Although the lesions are usually solitary and congenital, subsequent investigators reported multiple lesions and later onset.
Clinically, the lesions are small hard yellowish-white warty nodules developed usually on the face and mostly in children and histopathologically are subepidermal calcified mass with secondary epidermal changes. Although the pathogenesis is still unexplained, it seems that the disease is not associated with any sysnmic or cutaneous disease or any biochemical abnormalities.
We present a first recorded case of subepidermal calcified nodules developed on the left cheek of a Korean female, aged 23, which has been present for 7 years. Shave biopsy showed typical histopathologic and histochemical features of the subepidermal calcified nodules. Literature were reviewed.
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