Table 1. Classification of Osteoma Cutis

Primary Osteoma Cutis

Secondary Osteoma Cutis

Albright’s hereditary osteodystrophy

Inflammatory processes*

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive

Traumatic processes†

Progressive osseous heteroplasia

Neoplastic processes‡

Congenital plate-like osteoma cutis

 

Idiopathic solitary or multiple osteomas, including military osteomas

 

 

*Inflammatory processes – infections, acne, chronic venous insufficiency, scleroderma, dermatomyositis

†Traumatic processes – scars, injection sites, hematomas

Neoplastic processes – nevi, basal cell carcinomas, pilomatricomas, trichoepitheliomas, hemangiomas,
pyogenic granulomas, schwannomas, lipomas, chondroid syringomas, organoid nevi, epidermal cysts,
dermoid cysts, dermatofibromas, desmoplastic melanomas, cutaneous metastases, sebaceous hyperplasia,
fibro-osseous pseudotumor of the digits