Broadly speaking, the differential for a skin lesion of the nose can be divided into nonmalignant tumors, inflammatory conditions, vascular lesions, premalignant lesions, and malignant tumors.
The pathway is activated in some diseases, for example a subset of autism cases and in tuberous sclerosis, a rare, multi-system genetic disease that causes nonmalignant tumors to grow in the brain and in other vital organs.
FIXING FIBROIDS Uterine fibroids are nonmalignant tumors that can impair fertility and sometimes cause pain, heavy menstrual bleeding, and urinary frequency.