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Adnexal tumor

Cutaneous attached tumors are numerous types of benign and evil one tumors arising from:

  • Hair follicles
  • Sebaceous glands
  • Eccrine and apocrine sweat glands

Adnexal tumors can be sporadic, but are sometimes due to syndromes, such as:

  • Birt-Hogg-Dube
  • Brooke-Spiegler syndrome
  • Cowden's disease
  • Torre-Muir syndrome (Lynch syndrome).

They are generally diagnosed by biopsy findings, rather than clinically. His histological features are combined with special immunohistochemistry Stains for a pathological diagnosis.

Benign eccrine and apocrine tumors include:

  • Syringoma
  • Poroma
  • Cylindroma and spiradenoma
  • Mixed cutaneous tumor
  • Syringofibroadenoma
  • Syringocystadenoma papilliferum
  • Hidradenoma papilliferum
  • Hidradenoma
  • Tubular/papillary adenoma, including papillary cystadenoma.

Malignant eccrine and apocrine tumors include:

  • Porocarcinoma
  • Adenoid cystic carcinoma
  • Mucinous carcinoma
  • Microcystic adnexal carcinoma
  • Digital papillary adenocarcinoma
  • Extramammary Paget's disease.

Benign follicular Tumors include:

  • Trichoblastoma and trichoepithelioma
  • Trichoadenoma
  • Trichofolliculoma
  • Trichilemmoma
  • Trichodiscoma and fibrofolliculoma
  • Tumor of the follicle infundibulum
  • Panfolliculoma
  • Pilomatricoma
  • Proliferating trichilemmal tumor

Malignant follicular tumors include:

  • Trichoblastic carcinoma
  • Trichilemmal carcinoma
  • Pilomatrix (matrical) carcinoma.

Sebaceous tumors include:

  • Sebaceous hyperplasia
  • Sebaceous adenoma and sebaceoma
  • Sebaceous carcinoma.

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