BACKGROUND Adnexal skin tumors are a heterogeneous group of uncommon tumors usually misdiagnosed clinically due to a huge variety of types and their variants. Histopathology usually helps in establishing the diagnosis. AIMS The study was undertaken to analyze the morphological, clinical, and histological features of adnexal tumors (ATs) of the skin at our center over a period of 4 years. SU...

Presented here are three cutaneous sebaceous tumors (one carcinoma and two sebaceomas), each demonstrating a focal glandular pattern representing apocrine differentiation. The patients, two males and one female, each clinically presented with a small solitary nodule or tumor on the scalp. None of the patients had features of Muir-Torre syndrome. Surgical removal of the lesions was performed in ...

A 69-year-old Hispanic woman presented for the evaluation of nodules on the head and back. In the past, she had been treated for basal cell carcinoma (BCC) of the face; the referring physician was concerned that the new lesions might also be BCC. The patient had an extensive past medical history. In addition to BCC, she had been treated for breast cancer, colon cancer, and cervical cancer prior...

BACKGROUND The epidermal nevus syndromes include different diseases that have the common feature of mosaicism. One of these has been recently identified and named phacomatosis pigmentokeratotica, in analogy to phacomatosis pigmentovascularis. It is characterized by an organoid nevus with sebaceous differentiation, a speckled-lentiginous nevus, and other associated anomalies. It has been hypothe...

BACKGROUND Ocular sebaceous carcinoma is an uncommon, aggressive ocular neoplasm with potential for regional and distant metastasis. CASE PRESENTATION A 77-year-old woman was found to have a solitary pulmonary lesion 6 years after the initial treatment of sebaceous carcinoma of the eyelid. Video-assisted lung wedge resection of an undetermined pulmonary nodule was carried out successfully. Mi...

Sebaceous adenoma of the salivary gland is a rare tumor comprising 0.1% of all salivary gland neoplasms and less than 0.5% of salivary adenomas. Histologically, sebaceous adenomas are benign neoplasms consisting of sebaceous cells arranged in nests forming acinar and duct-like structures. Oncocytic metaplasia may also occur in some areas. We describe a case of sebaceous adenoma in the submandib...

A recent large-scale retrospective study has revealed that the frequency and aggressiveness of extraocular sebaceous carcinoma is comparable with that of the periocular counterpart (1) and a signiflcant number of extraocular sebaceous carcinomas show regional and widespread métastases (2). However, sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy has seldom been used for identifying regional nodal metastasis i...

Matriptase and prostasin, acting as a tightly coupled proteolytic cascade, were reported to be required for epidermal barrier formation in mouse skin. Here we show that, in human skin, matriptase and prostasin are expressed with an inverse pattern over the course of differentiation. Matriptase was detected primarily in epidermal basal keratinocytes and the basaloid cells in the outer root sheat...

Mitochondria are not difficult to demonstrate in sebaceous cells. Yet, they are only briefly described in the literature. Nicholas et al (4) believed that mitochondria in sebaceous cells undergo a direct transformation into lipid droplets. In the sebaceous glands of the mouse the mitochondria are said to increase in number at the beginning of lipid storage, to decrease during sebaceous transfor...

Sebaceous gland carcinoma is a rare fast growing cutaneous cancer. It is derived from the adenxal epithelium of sebaceous glands. Sebaceous carcinomas are generally divided into those occurring in periocular or extraocular locations. Ocular sebaceous carcinomas occur most commonly in upper eye lid, in the elderly with a predilection for females and Asian populations. Due to its clinical resembl...