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Agustín España, MD; Fermin García-Amigot, PhD; Leyre Aguado, MD; Jesús García-Foncillas, MD

Arch Dermatol. 2007;143(9):1209-1210.

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Brooke-Spiegler syndrome (BSS) includes the combination of spiradenomas, cylindromas, and trichoepitheliomas. It has been postulated that BSS results from defects in the regulation of putative stem cells of the folliculosebaceous-apocrine unit.¹ This follicular dysregulation may give rise to 3 different genodermatoses: familial cylindromatosis (FC), multiple familial trichoepithelioma (MFT), or the classic triad of BSS.

The gene for FC was mapped to chromosome 16q12-q13.² At present, 32 different germline mutations in the CYLD gene have been described,³ 20 in families with FC, 8 in families with MFT, and 4 in families with BSS. Taken together, these observations suggest that these inherited syndromes associated with skin appendage tumors not only share a common genetic basis but also may represent phenotypic variation of the same disease.⁴

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