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cutaneous follicular tumors
Monday 9 August 2004
hair follicle-related tumors; Skin adnexal neoplasms and neoplasticālike lesions of pilosebaceous origin
Classification
Hyperplastic and hamartomatous lesions
- basaloid follicular hamartoma
- basaloid epidermal proliferation
- overlying dermal mesenchymal lesions
- trichofolliculoma
- folliculosebaceous cystic hamartoma
- trichodiscoma / fibrofolliculoma
- pilar sheath acanthoma
Benign neoplasms
- trichofolliculoma
- desmoplastic trichoepithelioma
- trichoblastoma
- trichoblastic fibroma
- trichoadenoma
- proliferating trichilemmal cyst / pilar tumor
- trichilemmoma
- desmoplastic trichilemmoma
- pilomatricoma / proliferative pilomatricoma
Malignant neoplasms
- trichilemmal carcinoma
- trichoblastic carcinoma
- malignant proliferating trichilemmal cyst
- pilomatrix carcinoma
Examples
pilomatricoma (pilomatrixoma)
triichoblastoma
tricho adenoma
See also
cutaneous adnexal tumors
Links
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1860623/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1860616/