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Atlas of dermatopathology
Josef Feit, Hana Jedličková, Günter Burg, Luděk Matyska, Spasoje Radovanovic et al.
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+ Introduction
+ Literature
+ Support
+ Skin biopsy
+ Non-tumorous skin diseases
+ Skin tumors
+ Cysts of the skin and subcutis
+ Soft tissue lesions
+ Some lesions of the oral cavity
+ Dermatovenerology
+ Collection of histological slides by prof. Günter Burg
+ Collection of histological slides by prof. Werner Kempf
+ Collection of histological slides of dr. Ram Chandra Adhikari
Proliferating trichilemmal cyst
Clinical signs
  • age: elderly, esp. women
  • location: usually scalp
  • subcutaneous nodules, sometimes ulcerating
Histology

Roundish tumor, sometimes partially cystic, with well defined borders; consisting of lobules of squamous epithelium with irregular, often abrupt keratinisation. Amorphous keratin masses form a substantial part of the tumor. The mode of keratinisation is of trichilemmal type. Squamous eddies and focal calcifications are usually present as well.

Proliferating trichilemmal cyst (4160)