Pilomatricoma of the scalp mimicking poorly differentiated cutaneous carcinoma on positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan and fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology

Daniel Bax; Michael Bax; Saraswati Pokharel; Paul N Bogner

doi:10.1016/j.jdcr.2017.12.006

Pilomatricoma of the scalp mimicking poorly differentiated cutaneous carcinoma on positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan and fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology

JAAD Case Rep. 2018 Apr 30;4(5):446-448. doi: 10.1016/j.jdcr.2017.12.006. eCollection 2018 Jun.

Authors

Daniel Bax¹, Michael Bax², Saraswati Pokharel^{3

4}, Paul N Bogner^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
² Department of Dermatology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York.

No abstract available

Keywords: FDG, fludeoxyglucose; FNA, fine-needle aspiration; FNAC, fine-needle aspiration cytology; PET/CT, positron emission tomography/computed tomography; calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe; ghost cells; pilomatricoma; pilomatrixoma.

Publication types

Case Reports