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CaseReport Article

Multiple Dermoid Cysts on the Forehead: Case report

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Pages 321-324 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

A 41-year-old man presented with multiple tumours on the forehead which had developed over a 20-year period. Preoperative computed tomography of the brain showed multiple subcutaneous lesions in the frontal region with no intracranial extension. Histological examination of a biopsy specimen from one of the tumours showed a dermoid cyst. The patient underwent excision of the tumours, and the resulting skin defect was covered with a full-thickness skin graft. His postoperative course was uneventful. Dermoid cysts of the head and neck are relatively rare, and usually occur in childhood as solitary lesions.

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