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Arch Dermatol. 2004;140:1161-1166.

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Diagnosis: Axillary syringoma.

MICROSCOPIC FINDINGS

The biopsy specimen of a papule showed multiple ductal and small cystic structures embedded in a fibrous connective tissue stroma in the dermis. The ducts were lined by 1 or 2 rows of epithelial cells (Figure 2). These histopathologic findings were consistent with syringoma.

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DISCUSSION

Syringoma is a relatively common appendageal tumor showing eccrine acrosyringeal differentiation. The typical clinical appearance of syringoma is firm, with skin-colored to brown papules on the lower eyelids.¹ Some clinical variants (eruptive,² linear,³ familial,⁴ vulvar,⁵ penile,⁶ scalp,⁷ and acral⁸ syringomas), as well as a histologic variant (clear cell syringoma), have been described. Although the axilla is a well-described site for syringoma, no previous case of syringoma limited to the axillae has been reported in the literature. In the 12 reported cases of eruptive syringoma,⁹ axillary involvement was seen in only 3 patients.

Clinical diagnosis is not difficult in cases in which the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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