1. Malignant nodular hidradenoma of scalp
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Tanmoy K. Maiti, Sampath Somanna, Dhaval Shukla, Asha Unchagi, and Bhagavatula Indira Devi
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Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,skull tumor ,integumentary system ,business.industry ,General Neuroscience ,Malignant nodular hidradenoma ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Case Report ,scalp tumor ,lcsh:RC321-571 ,malignant nodular hidradenoma ,Radiation therapy ,cutaneous adnexal tumor ,Rare tumor ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Scalp ,Sweat gland ,Skull Tumor ,Medicine ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry - Abstract
Malignant nodular hidradenoma (MNH) is a rare tumor of sweat gland known by many names in the literature. Scalp is a known and yet uncommon site of occurrence. We describe two patients with scalp MNH with brain parenchymal invasion. Both tumors recurred in spite of total excision and radiotherapy.
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- 2014
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