Extensive mucinous eccrine naevus following the lines of Blaschko: a new type of eccrine naevus

Extensive mucinous eccrine naevus following the lines of Blaschko: a new type of eccrine naevus.

A 32-year-old woman had several brownish and pruritic lesions over her left buttock and leg that had been present since she was 12 years old. She observed a progressive increase in size and number of the lesions, with increased sweating on and around them. Examination revealed several brownish, irregular nodules, 1–1.5 cm in diameter, and firm to palpation, along the lower left limb and followi...

Mucinous eccrine naevus presenting with hyperhidrosis: a case report.

Tubular spitz naevus mimicking eccrine spiradenoma.

© 2014 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1641 Journal Compilation © 2014 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Spitz naevus was first described by Sophie Spitz in 1948 (1). It is a variant of benign melanocytic naevus composed of spindled and epithelioid melanocytes, found predominantly in children and adolescents. A number of histopathological variants have been reported, such as desmopl...

Efficacy of botulinum toxin for a congenital eccrine naevus.

Editor Congenital eccrine naevus is a rare clinical entity. Fewer than 20 cases had been reported, and only three cases were congenital. 1,2 We present a child with congenital localized hyperhidrosis on the forearm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first congenital eccrine naevus successfully treated with botulinum toxin type A. A 12-year-old girl with no significant past medical histo...

Mucinous Naevus: A Rare Variant of Connective Tissue Naevus

Mucinous naevus (MN) is a type of benign hamartomatous cutaneous mucinoses characterized by deposition of excessive amounts of mucin in the superficial dermis in a diffuse pattern with absence of collagen and elastic fibres in the mucinous areas. It may be associated with features of connective tissue naevus of proteoglycan type [1]. There is paucity of literature regarding this interesting ent...