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Cutaneous horn present for two months
Joanna Spira, Harold Rabinovitz
Dermatology Online Journal 6(1): 11
Department of Dermatology, University of Miami
History
Figure 1
Figure 1. Tumor on volar aspect of left forearm.
An 82-year-old white woman presented with a raised, 3x4 cm, painless growth on her left forearm. The lesion had been present
for approximately 2 months and was not associated with any symptoms. The patient had a history of a previous skin cancer on
her lower extremity. Physical examination demonstrated a cone-shaped keratotic cutaneous horn as shown in Figure 1 & 2. Histopathologic
findings are shown in Figure 3.
Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 2. Close-up view of the tumor surmouted by cutaneous horn.
