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Syringocystadenoma papilliferum: an unusual presentation
Sudip Kumar Ghosh1, Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, Gobinda Chatterjee
1Department of Dermatology, Venereology, & Leprosy, R.G.Kar Medical College, Kolkata, India. dr_skghosh@yahoo.co.in
Pediatric Dermatology
|March 5, 2010
Abstract:
An 8-year-old boy presented with a rapidly growing, unusually large, fleshy, lobulated, cauliflower-like mass on the lower back. Incisional biopsy revealed the histologic picture of syringocystadenoma papilliferum. The case is reported in this study for its unusual site, very large size, and peculiar morphology.
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