Unilateral naevoid trichoepitheliomas on the face of a child.
Trichoepitheliomas are benign epidermal appendage tumours that present most commonly as solitary lesions, and less often as multiple, symmetrically distributed lesions on the face, scalp, neck and trunk. Only a few patients have been reported in whom trichoepitheliomas were found as unusually configured linear or plaque-like confluent lesions, all of which occurred in patients with skin types V or VI. We describe a white girl with a hemifacial plaque of confluent naevoid trichoepitheliomas, the first report of such lesions in a white patient.
Strauss
R M
RM
Department of Dermatology, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK. rolandmstrauss@tiscali.co.uk
Merchant
W J
WJ
Stainforth
J M
JM
Clark
S M
SM
D002648:Child; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018295:Neoplasms, Basal Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*