Rosales-Rocha GE, Torres-Medina E, Peña-Rodríguez A, Aragón-Tovar A

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

The patient is a thirty-nine-year-old man with past medical history of smoking and intense chronic alcoholism, promiscuity, and morbid obesity. He sought medical attention for a 6 x 5 cm pedunculated scrotal lesion that had developed over a seven-month period. Lesion was excised and identified as giant condyloma acuminatum (Buschke-Löwenstein tumor). There has been no recurrence of the pathology at four-month follow-up.
Buschke-Löwenstein tumor is a rare entity. It is considered to be benign although it has malignant potential induced by human papillomavirus. Typical human papillomavirus lesions arise from infected basal keratinocyte proliferation. Ideal treatment has yet to be found and there continues to be a high recurrence rate, underlining the fact that much remains to be learned about this pathology.

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