title: Poromatosis: the occurrence of multiple eccrine poromas.
abstract: Eccrine poromas are rare, benign adnexal tumors derived from the intraepidermal portion of sweat ducts. Historically they were thought to arise from eccrine ducts although today it is thought that they may also have an apocrine origin. They usually appear as solitary, slow-growing, skin-colored papules on acral surfaces. Here we present the unusual situation of a patient with multiple poromas only three of which are located near the distal extremities.
authors.affiliation: University of California Davis, Department of Dermatology, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Navi
authors.forename: Maxwell
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fung
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Lynch
mesh_terms: D018250:Acrospiroma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013544:Sweat Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery