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Philip H. Cooper, MD; Susan E. Mackel, MD

Arch Dermatol. 1985;121(3):386-388.

Abstract
• We describe a patient with a 3-cm sessile tumor of the heel. Despite its large size and unusual location, it had the histologic characteristics of a fibrokeratoma. The essential microscopic feature of fibrokeratoma is its core of collagenous fibers with both interwoven and parallel arrangements. Epidermal hyperplasia and hyperkeratosis are often present, but probably represent secondary changes. Fibrokeratomas, therefore, have some of the clinical and pathologic features of collagenomas.

(Arch Dermatol 1985;121:386-388)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Pathology (Dr Cooper) and Dermatology (Drs Cooper and Mackel), University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication March 23, 1984.

Reprint requests to Department of Pathology, Box 214, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908 (Dr Cooper).

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