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Nur Cihan Cosansu1, Tuba Cetiner, Gülcan Yuksekal
1Nur Cihan Cosansu, MD, is Dermatologist, Sakarya University, Education and Research Hospital, Department of Dermatology, Sakarya, Turkey. Tuba Cetiner, MD, is Dermatologist, Izmit Seka State Hospital, Department of Dermatology, Kocaeli, Turkey. Gülcan Yuksekal, MD, is Dermatologist, Yenikent State Hospital, Department of Dermatology, Sakarya, Turkey. The authors have disclosed no financial relationships related to this article. Submitted January 2, 2021; accepted in revised form March 12, 2021.
Abstract:
A cornu cutaneum (CC) is a rare lesion. This case report describes a 63-year-old woman with a giant CC lesion on her right hip arising from a hypertrophic burn scar at its base. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first case described in the literature of a CC that developed from a burn scar.
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