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Giant orf on the nose Volume 12, numéro 2, March - April 2002

Auteurs
Department of Dermatology, Harran University, Medical Faculty, 63200 Sanliurfa, Turkey.
  • Page(s) : 183-5
  • Année de parution : 2002

Case report A 9-year-old boy was admitted to the dermatology department outpatient clinic because of a giant tumoral mass on the nose. A careful history revealed that this lesion had appeared 3 weeks before as a small papule that developed later to form a bleeding and crusted tumoral mass. It was unresponsive to antibiotics. The boy lived in a village and his family kept lambs, which he sometimes fed. Examination revealed a giant, [...]