The blue-gray cystic basal cell epithelioma.
We report, in two men, the occurrence of a tiny, dome-shaped, blue-gray cystic nodule of the face. The nodule in both men clinically simulated an eccrine or apocrine hidrocystoma. Histologic examination revealed that both were cystic basal cell epitheliomas. These cases are reported in order to bring this unusual clinical presentation of basal cell epithelioma to the attention of clinicians.
D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*; D013544:Sweat Gland Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis