Sebaceous gland hyperplasia, senile. 74-year-old patient noticed these completely asymptomatic skin changes several years ago. In large-pored (seborrhoeic) skin of the forehead region there are waxy, slightly raised papules up to 0.4 cm in size with a slightly lobed edge structure (see papule top right). The diagnosis of sebaceous gland hyperplasia is fixed at the central porus formation (see papule in the center of the picture).
Sebaceous gland hyperplasia, senile. 0.5 cm large, yellowish-brownish, surface indented, shiny papules, sharply defined, symptom-free, existing for at least 2 years.
Sebaceous gland hyperplasia: Soft, yellowish papules which have existed for years, slowly increasing in size; in the middle of the picture 2 sebaceous cysts which are the maximum form of a sebaceous gland hyperplasia.
sebaceous gland hyperplasia, senile. large, isolated, skin-coloured to yellowish, soft-elastic nodules (phymogenesis - see also rhinophyma) on the cheek of a 66-year-old man. on lateral view lobular structure with bumpy surface structure. pronounced actinic elastosis with beginning M. Favre-Racouchaud.
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