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Goutam Dawn, MD, MRCP; Girish Gupta, MRCP
Monklands Hospital, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Arch Dermatol. 2002;138:1091-1096.

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REPORT OF A CASE

A 20-year-old woman presented to the dermatology department with skin-colored and erythematous warty papules arranged vertically in a linear fashion on the nape of her neck (Figure 1 and Figure 2). The lesion had been present since birth but approximately 1 year earlier, during the patient's first pregnancy, the lesion appeared to grow and became more prominent at the superior pole. Because of the sudden change in the lesion and the recent onset of pain at the site, her general practitioner treated her with oral antibiotics for a presumed infection. She was otherwise in good health. The lesion was excised (Figure 3).

Figure 1.

Figure 2.

Figure 3.

What is your diagnosis?

Diagnosis: Syringocystadenoma papilliferum (SP) in a sebaceous nevus (SN).

Histologic examination of the lesion showed numerous villous papillary projections extending into the lumina of cystic invaginations, which were connected to a papillomatous epidermis. A collection of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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