Malignant eccrine tumor--a case report and a classification of tumors of eccrine sweat apparatus.
A case of malignant eccrine tumor and its histological findings were reported. In this case, we considered basal cell carcinoma or malignant melanoma clinically; however, the histological features matched those of malignant eccrine tumor. It has been said that it is very difficult to determine the origin of tumors of sweat apparatus; to contribute to this ongoing dialogue, the classification of tumors of eccrine sweat apparatus was also discussed.
Nakamura
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Department of Dermatology, First Hospital of Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
Imai
T
T
Nakayama
K
K
Goto
M
M
Nishihara
K
K
Hoshi
K
K
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012535:Scalp; D013544:Sweat Gland Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013545:Sweat Glands / Q000648:ultrastructure