© 2010 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-0793 Journal Compilation © 2010 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Sir, Sebaceous naevi (organoid naevi) are hamartomatous proliferations that usually appear at birth or early in life, and are most commonly located on the scalp and face (1). They often present as round or oval lesions, and occasionally distribute in a linear pattern (2). Frequen...

adnexal tumors (ats) are primary skin tumors with benign or rarely, malignant behavior. they have been classified based on differentiation towards hair follicle, sebaceous, apocrine or eccrine gland. few large-scale studies have focused on ats. to determine the prevalence of ats and to assess clinical and histopathological trend of ats. a retrospective descriptive study of all ats diagnosed in ...

Muir-Torre syndrome (MTS), a subtype of Lynch syndrome II, presents as at least one internal malignancy associated with at least one sebaceous skin tumor. This autosomal-dominant genetic disorder is thought to arise from microsatellite instability. Although not all patients with sebaceous tumors have MTS, even a single biopsy-proven sebaceous adenoma may warrant evaluation for MTS. We report th...