As a Chinese medicine, it is especially useful in treating skin tumors and ulcers.

Over the years, Wood developed several medical conditions including skin tumors, artificial hips, a stroke, and having triple bypass surgery in 1990.

But recent studies showing that it caused skin tumors in rats have prompted the agency to review its status.

The patients had a total of 121 skin tumors in the two years before they started taking isotretinoin, averaging 24 tumors each.

In the two years that they took isotretinoin, they had a total of 25 skin tumors.

Pilomatricoma is a benign skin tumor that is associated with the hair matrix.

Dermatology unit and Plastic Surgery for early detection of skin tumors.

They can turn malignant and form the skin tumor known as Merkel cell carcinoma.

There has also been a report of its use in differentiating malignant, bashful skin tumors from benign.

It was so named because Alibert described the skin tumors of a severe case as having a mushroom-like appearance.