Calcinosis of the scrotum. Report of a case associated with epidermoid cysts

Melo, C.R.; Schmitt, F.C.; Melo, I.S.; Vaca, J.; Lucia Caetano, A.; Souza, F.

Medicina Cutanea Ibero-Latino-Americana 16(4): 355-358

1988


ISSN/ISBN: 0210-5187
PMID: 3068449
Document Number: 322685
Clinical and histological features of a case of the so-called idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum in a 22 year-old otherwise healthy man are presented. In a first biopsy we did not observe any evidence of squamous epithelial lining around calcified masses, but in a second one we observed some intact epidermoid cysts and granulomas of foreign-body type around keratinous material. These findings suggest that scrotal calcinosis is not idiopathic, but rather the end stage of dystrophic calcification of scrotal epidermoid cysts.

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