Angiokeratoma of Fordyce simulating recurrent penile cancer.
Penile cancer requires careful clinical follow-up. Therefore, when a patient presented with a florid papillary lesion at his penectomy site, it was immediately biopsied. The histologic examination, however, revealed a benign angiokeratoma with no evidence of recurrent cancer. Angiokeratoma on the scrotum after treatment for carcinoma of the penis has only been documented once. To our knowledge, this is the first description of it causing a diagnostic dilemma with recurrence. A radiotherapy association has only been documented in vulval lesions. Symptomatic treatment is laser vaporization. This emphasizes the importance of histologic assessment before any oncologic surgery intervention.
Malalasekera
Ajith P
AP
Department of Urology, Leicester General Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester National Heath Service Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom.
Goddard
Jonathan Charles
JC
Terry
Timothy R
TR
D000794:Angiokeratoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010412:Penile Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*