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Fifty-Three Years after a Pencil Puncture Wound
Vijay H Aswani1, Seung Lae Kim2
1Department of Internal Medicine & Pediatrics, Marshfield, Wisc., USA.
Case Reports in Dermatology
|November 24, 2015
Abstract:
A pencil core with an intact pencil tip was excised from the thigh of a 60-year-old male 53 years after a puncture wound. Histologic examination of the excised pencil core and the surrounding tissue revealed a foreign body reaction with abundant entrapped dark black pigment and chronic reparative changes, including dense sclerosis and focal granulation tissue formation.

