Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to R J Herten.
It is as simple to biopsy around the nail as it is at any other site, and there are multiple lesions that deserve biopsy. Biopsy of the nail bed or nail matrix is avoided unless there is possible malignant change. Biopsy sites in the nail bed usually heal satisfactorily, but biopsy of the matrix is more likely to produce permanent deformity.
An eighty-one year old man is presented who had multiple (four) premalignant fibroepitheliomas of Pinkus. A review of the literature and our case material revealed that multiple lesions account for 36 percent of the total cases reported. The clinical and pathologic features of these unusual variants of basal cell carcinoma are discussed.
Use of the Paragon Multiple Stain for Frozen Sections (PMS) for Tzanck preparations of herpetic lesions has several distinct advantages over procedures previously described; the method is rapid, simple, inexpensive, and results in hematoxylin-eosin-like staining. This enables a diagnosis to be made from a single, affected cell.