KERATOACANTHOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does keratoacanthoma mean? 

• KERATOACANTHOMA (noun)
  The noun KERATOACANTHOMA has 1 sense:

1. skin tumor that grows rapidly (especially in older people) and resembles a carcinoma but does not spread; it usually disappears spontaneously, often leaving a scar

  Familiarity information: KERATOACANTHOMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KERATOACANTHOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Skin tumor that grows rapidly (especially in older people) and resembles a carcinoma but does not spread; it usually disappears spontaneously, often leaving a scar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("keratoacanthoma" is a kind of...):

acanthoma; skin tumor (a neoplasm originating in the epidermis)

 Context examples 

Lesions with a crateriform growth pattern on a polypoid stalk have occasionally been diagnosed as keratoacanthoma.

(Papilloma of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Clinical presentation is usually rapidly growing squamous cell carcinomas or keratoacanthomas that primarily localize to sun-exposed areas.

(Multiple Self Healing Epithelioma of Ferguson-Smith, NCI Thesaurus)

It has been suggested that keratoacanthoma represents a distinct subtype of squamous cell carcinoma of the skin.

(Keratoacanthoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Keratoacanthoma occurs more often in males.

(Keratoacanthoma, NCI Dictionary)

Keratoacanthomas affect males more frequently than females and the majority tend to regress spontaneously.

(Keratoacanthoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The pathology panel recommends avoiding the use of the diagnosis of keratoacanthoma, as it has been applied to a variety of lesions (papillomas, well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma with a crateriform growth pattern and certain breast lesions).

(Papilloma of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)