title: Benign cutaneous adnexal tumors in childhood and young adults, excluding pilomatrixoma: review of 28 cases and literature.
abstract: Benign adnexal tumors of the skin, excluding pilomatrixomas, were identified in 28 patients between the ages of 4 and 20 years with a mean age of 15; 23 women and 5 men. Most lesions were described as papules and they occurred on the face, scalp and neck in 75% of cases. Trichoepithelioma and syringoma accounted for 56% of all neoplasms. Only one patient gave a history of familial trichoepitheliomas. The remaining tumors were examples of syringocystadenoma papilliferum, eccrine acrospiroma, and eccrine and apocrine hidrocystomas. Excisional biopsy constituted the treatment in all cases; only one neoplasm, an eccrine acrospiroma, recurred locally.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Marrogi
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Wick
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Dehner
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006607:Adenoma, Sweat Gland / Q000473:pathology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013544:Sweat Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*