A single lesion
showing features of pigmented eccrine poroma and poroid
hidradenoma.J
Cutan Pathol. 2008 Apr 16.
Poroid
hidradenoma (PH) is a variant of poroma. This entity was defined
by Abenoza and Ackerman in 1990. This neoplasm shows architectural
characteristics of hidradenoma (tumor cells confined entirely
within the dermis in both solid and cystic components) and
cytologic characteristics of poroid neoplasm (poroid and cuticular
cells, the latter showing ductal differentiation). We herein
document a case of single poroid lesion with the features of both
eccrine poroma and PH. The patient was a 55-year-old woman with a
pigmented nodular lesion on her upper back for 7 years. The
histopathologic features of the lesion were consistent with those
of eccrine poroma and PH. Unlike most eccrine poromas, this case
was pigmented, clinically and microscopically.
Poroid hidradenoma:
a case report.
In Vivo. 2007
Sep-Oct;21(5):905-7.
Poroid
hidradenoma is a variant of the eccrine poroma that belongs to the
group of poroid neoplasms. It presents architectural features of
hidradenoma, with solid and cystic areas and tumour cells
restricted to the dermis, and cytological features of poroid
neoplasm such as poroid and cuticular cells. Poroid hidradenoma
becomes malignant in less than 1% of cases, but its histologic
characteristics may resemble those of malignant neoplasms; thus it
is easily misdiagnosed. Twenty percent of poroid hidradenomas
occur in the extremities. To date, very few cases of this entity
have been reported in the literature. We present a case of poroid
hidradenoma in a 35-year-old man with a soft-tissue lesion on his
right thigh. |