title: Localized basaloid follicular hamartoma.
abstract: We report a 39-year-old Japanese woman with a 30 x 10 mm, skin-colored, soft, hairless, irregularly elevated plaque in the left retroauricular area. Histologically, it consistently showed features of atypical hair follicles; some showed immaturely developed basaloid epithelial islands invaginated with condensed stromal cells, and others were replaced or associated with solid strands, branching cords, or lace-like networks of undifferentiated basaloid cells. Although the clinical appearance of a typical localized basaloid follicular hamartoma is a plaque of alopecia, this case seems to be a variant, because the histological findings are so characteristic of the entity. The relationship of basaloid follicular hamartoma to other hair-follicle derived tumors is also considered.
authors: Department of Dermatology, Otaru City General Hospital, Japan.
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Kato
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Ueno
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004423:Ear; D005260:Female; D006197:Hair; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*