Psoriasis, a rare disease of the nipple-areola. A case report
Ahmet Gökhan Saritaş 1, Kubilay Dalci 1, Uğur Topal 2, Şenel Beydola 3, Arbil Açıkalın 4, Ahmet Rencüzoğullari 1
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Article Info
1 Department of General Surgery, Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Cukurova/Adana, Turkey
2 Department of General Surgery, Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine, Melilgazi/Kayseri, Turkey
3 Department of Medical Dermatology, Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Cukurova/Adana, Turkey
4 Department of Pathology, Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Cukurova/Adana, Turkey
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with an incidence of 1-3%. Psoriasis usually occurs in the scalp, knee, elbow, sacral region and joints. The nipple-areola complex involvement is rarely encountered in the literature. CASE REPORT: 31-year-old female patient, who presented at the dermatology outpatient clinic with a lesion characterized by bright, pearlescent-white squamous lesions on an erythematous plaque, limited to the nipple-areola complex for the past three years, and who was diagnosed with “Psoriasis” following incisional biopsy. CONCLUSIONS: The benign or malignant distinction should be made for lesions observed in the nipple-areola complex. It should not be forgotten that psoriasis may also be present in the differential diagnosis of dermatitis-like benign lesions that do not respond to long-term and various drug treatment, although they are rare.
Keywords
- Complex Benign lesions
- Breast
- Nipple areola
- Psoriasis
