{"id":844,"date":"2023-01-05T19:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T00:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=844"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:52:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:52:15","slug":"acrochordon-skin-tags","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/chapter\/acrochordon-skin-tags\/","title":{"raw":"Acrochordon (Skin Tags)","rendered":"Acrochordon (Skin Tags)"},"content":{"raw":"<span lang=\"EN-CA\" xml:lang=\"EN-CA\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Acrochordon, more commonly known as skin tags, are soft, skin-coloured, fleshy papules with a narrow base. They are more common in middle-aged adults and have a higher frequency in obese patients or in association with acanthosis nigricans.\u00a0 They are often found at sites of friction such as the axilla, neck and groin. Skin tags can be removed with liquid nitrogen or by scissor excision (though slight bleeding may occur due to a feeder arteriole at the center).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_867\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-867\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1779\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-05-at-5.18.51-PM-300x190.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/> Image 8.16: Skin tags in an area of acanthosis nigricans[\/caption]","rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\" xml:lang=\"EN-CA\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Acrochordon, more commonly known as skin tags, are soft, skin-coloured, fleshy papules with a narrow base. They are more common in middle-aged adults and have a higher frequency in obese patients or in association with acanthosis nigricans.\u00a0 They are often found at sites of friction such as the axilla, neck and groin. Skin tags can be removed with liquid nitrogen or by scissor excision (though slight bleeding may occur due to a feeder arteriole at the center).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-867\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-867\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1779\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-05-at-5.18.51-PM-300x190.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1779\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-05-at-5.18.51-PM-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1779\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-05-at-5.18.51-PM-65x41.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1779\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-05-at-5.18.51-PM-225x142.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1779\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-05-at-5.18.51-PM-350x221.png 350w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1779\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-05-at-5.18.51-PM.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image 8.16: Skin tags in an area of acanthosis nigricans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"menu_order":11,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-844","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":802,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/844\/revisions\/1408"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/802"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/844\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/pedsdermprimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}