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Rare, undifferentiated or slightly differentiated, benign (apparently pluripotent) adnexal tumor with predominantly eccrine differentiation. Apocrine, occasionally follicular differentiation is possible. Against the (exclusively) eccrine genesis speaks the observation that spiradenomas occur very rarely on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
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Usually solitary, round, 0.5-3 cm large, coarse, skin-coloured to livid red, sharply defined, rarely spontaneously or under pressure painful tumour with a smooth surface. Multiple, disseminated or linearly arranged tumours are rare. The clinical picture is, apart from the possible painfulness, not very characteristic. The diagnosis is usually a histological accidental finding.
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Spiradenomas often occur together with cylindromas, possibly both together with trichoepitheliomas and trichoblastomas (see Brooke-Spiegler syndrome below). Recently, spiradenoma and cylindrome have been regarded as one entity, which are summarized under the term spiradenocylindrome.
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- Eich N et al (1985) The eccrine spiradenoma. dermatologist 36: 240-241
- Kersting E, Helwig EB (1956) Eccrine spiradenoma. Arch Dermatol 73: 199-227
- Granter SR et al (2000) Malignant eccrine spiradenoma (spiradenocarcinoma): a clinicopathologic study of 12 cases. At J Dermatopathol 22: 97-103
- Leonard N et al (2003) Low-grade malignant eccrine spiradenoma with systemic metastases. At J Dermatopathol 25: 253-255
Massoumi R et al (2006) Cylindroma as tumor of hair follicle origin.J Invest Dermatol. 2006 May;126(5):1182-1184
- Mirza I et al (2002) Malignant eccrine spiradenoma. Arch Catholic Lab Med 126: 591-594
- Rose C (2014) tumors of the scalp. Special aspects of selected examples. Dermatologist 65: 1030-1036
- Ter Poorten MC et al (2003) Familial eccrine spiradenoma: a case report and review of the literature. Dermatol Surgery 29: 411-414
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Angles; Angles; Brooke-spiegler syndrome; Calretinin; Cystic tumors; Malignant eccrine spiradenoma; Multiple Trichoepithelioma ; Spiradenocylindrome; Spiradenoma, eccrine;Outgoing links (8)
Angles; Brooke-spiegler syndrome; Cylindrome; Excision; Glomus tumor; Leiomyoma (overview); Multiple Trichoepithelioma ; Trichoblastoma;Disclaimer
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