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Norms horn

Norm is a customer who comes into our shop and has for years. One day he came in and had what looked like a pimple on his ear. This is what it lookes like about a year and a half later. The base actually felt like the horn of a cow. I know I bumped it and still have the shivers over how it felt when I think about it. He has since had it removed.


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Ann Pettigrew09-Sep-2013 03:46
Dogs get similar lesions and they are benign in dogs. Glad he had it removed. Would be interesting to know what it turned out to be. I didn't think squamous cell carcinomas would get that keratin or horn-like growth as Marcus suggested.
Markus Grompe01-Oct-2012 03:50
definitely a squamous cell carcinoma... not lethal, but no pretty...
Gretchen 15-Apr-2012 01:16
Great, now I'm going to have nightmares! lol.
Michael Morrow 16-Jan-2012 17:49
I googled my name, Michael Morrow...and this is one of the first hits. Please remove it..sheesh.
Guest 30-Sep-2011 15:23
This is a cutaneous horn. They happen on mostly older white men on sun-exposed areas of skin. Most of the time they are not cancerous. It's just a mass of keratin that grows abnormally. They are almost always removed far before they get as big and gross as Norm's here.
nicole 12-May-2010 05:50
I'm impressed with the apparent increase of blood flow to the area. The skin around the growth is flushed with it. I'm interested that this happened to an older person. I wonder if this is a result of aging and is a sign of genetic 'fraying' or if the tissue reverted to a more pluripotent form and then was programmed for nail material. I'm incredibly curious about what the doctor had to say.
GUESS WHOO 11-Mar-2010 04:04
that it so frekain GROSS!!!! YUCKIE X/
Kombizz20-Nov-2009 06:23
call him a doctor
24:00 22-Nov-2008 00:45
?que es esta? !muy bien!
olivier bruning18-Sep-2008 22:19
YAK!!!!!!
Guest 11-May-2008 05:26
All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!
At first, it's a little uncomfortable to look at (you really want to turn away) but then as you look longer, it is kinda cool in a Freak/Side Show way. Just think of the cash he could have made traveling around as the "Horny Old Man".
Inga Morozoff23-Apr-2008 02:55
Hurl
J. 22-Feb-2008 05:36
This kind of thing crops up from time to time. See:

www.thehumanmarvels.com/2006/12/horned-human-revisited.html
Guest 27-Jan-2008 08:21
too much viagra...
Dan Chusid01-Jan-2008 09:27
:^O
guest5 14-Sep-2006 14:57
To post this with no explanation is pure torture... c'mon explain?
Guest 18-Dec-2005 23:42
What in the Sam Hell IS that!? EWWWWWW!!!
Guest 15-Nov-2005 12:44
Scary stuff!
Kel the nun 20-Oct-2005 07:11
Is this dude a bit "horny", perhaps? LOL! That effing horn has an effing eye, dude! LOL! How long has the old dude been sporting the horn? And does it serve any useful purpose? Hahaha! Cool!!!
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