Postauricular pilar sheath acanthoma

Author's response to reviews Title: Significant differences in the use of helthcare resources of native-born and foreign-born in Spain. Authors: PILAR CARRASCO-GARRIDO (pilar.carrasco@urjc.es)

Acantholytic acanthoma.

This article describes 31 examples of acantholytic acanthoma, a newly recognized, solitary, benign cutaneous tumor. Acantholytic acanthoma was typically an asymptomatic, keratotic papule or nodule. Patients ranged in age from 32 to 87 years (median 60 years); the ratio of men to women was 2:1; the most frequent clinical diagnosis was keratosis; and half of the growths were on the trunk of the b...

[Eruptive clear cell acanthoma].

Actas Dermosifiliogr. 2009;100:235-48 244 incidence in areas exposed to sunlight in patients with a history of basal or squamous cell carcinoma; b) other carcinogens—frequent occurrence in areas of irradiation, erythema ab igne, or following chronic exposure to arsenic; c) immunosuppression—from treatment in a liver or heart transplant setting or rheumatic diseases; and in patients with hematol...

Kerato-acanthoma in Ocular Pathology.

THE main interest of kerato-acanthoma (molluscum sebaceum) is its resemblance to squamous-cell carcinoma of the skin: it is, however, benign and even self-healing, and it seems very likely that an appreciable number of lesions diagnosed as malignant in the past, and followed-up as such, were in fact examples of this condition, so that a mistaken diagnosis may result in gross over-treatment and ...

Metastasising pilar tumour of scalp.

A case of pilar tumour of the scalp, treated by local excision and radiotherapy, later metastasised to the neck. The variable histological growth patterns of the primary tumour and its metastases are described. It is concluded that the pilar tumour is a genuine neoplasm of the hair follicle that is occasionally capable of malignant behaviour.