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Dermal cylindroma

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ICD-O
  
M8200/3

MeSH
  
D003528

eMedicine
  
derm/94

Dermal cylindroma

In dermatologic pathology, a dermal cylindroma, also dermal eccrine cylindroma) and (less specifically) cylindroma, is a benign adnexal tumor, which occurs on the scalp and forehead.

Multiple cylindromas may grow together in a "hat-like" configuration, sometimes referred to as a turban tumor. Cylindromas are uncommon dysplasias of skin appendages.

Histology

Dermal cylindromas are:

  • dermal lesions consisting of nests of cells that are surrounded by hyaline (i.e. glassy, eosinophilic, acellular) material and have:
  • hyperchromatic nuclei that may palisade (columnar nuclei arranged around the periphery of the cells nests - with their short axis tangential to the nest periphery), and
  • cells with lighter staining ovoid nuclei at their centre.
  • They lack of a significant number of lymphocytes; this differentiates them from spiradenomas.

    References

    Dermal cylindroma Wikipedia


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