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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1987; 10(3):181-186

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1987.10.3.181

Case Report

A Case of Scrotal Calcinosis Associated with Epidermal Cyst

HC Kang, KM Myong, HI Kook
Corresponding author: HI Kook. Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Copyright ⓒ 1987. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

Dystrophic calcinosis of scrotal wall, consisting of solitary or multiple circumscribed calcium deposits in previously damaged tissue, such as sebaceous cyst, xanthoma, fibroma, dartos muscle, onchocerciasis, trichilemmal cyst and epidermal cyst, may itch or drain chalky white material. The twenty-one years old male patient had multiple, 2 to 4mm sized yellowish or flesh colored papules in scrotal wall. Histopathologically each papule showed intact epidermal cyst or keratinous material with calcium deposits within the epidermal cyst which is partially degenerated and surrounded foreign body reaction. Therefore, we report a case of dystrophic scrotal calcinosis associated with the inflammation of scrotal epidermal cyst.