Case Report

Year : 2018 | Volume : 7 | Issue : 2 | Page : 17-9

“Pigmented Pilomatricoma”: A Rare Histopathological Variant

Neeti Goyal, Ritu Mehta, Arun Gupta, Kunal Tiwari

Department of Pathology, INHS Asvini, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Address for correspondence:

Dr. Neeti Goyal,

Department of Pathology, INHS Asvini, Mumbai

400005, Maharashtra, India.

E-mail: neeti.nits@gmail.com

Abstract

Pilomatricoma is one of the common cutaneous benign adnexal tumors but the pigmented variant is rare among them. This is a case report of pigmented pilomatricoma in a young girl which has grown as a swelling over the supraclavicular region for 3 months and the histopathological features include basaloid cells and eosinophilic shadow cells with melanin deposition, calcification, and foreign body type giant cells.

Keywords: Adnexal, pigment, pilomatricoma, swelling

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How to cite this article:

Goyal N, Mehta R, Gupta A, Tiwari K. “Pigmented pilomatricoma”: A rare histopathological variant. Int J Histopathol Interpret 2018;7:17-9.