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Report of a Case

JACOB S. LUDWIG, M.D.; MORRIS M. COHEN, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1958;77(1):116-118.

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When an uncommon histologic specimen is encountered, it stimulates interest, but when two rather uncommon conditions appear as a single clinical finding, they call for an even greater degree of study and speculation. It is for these reasons and for the purpose of adding another case to the records^1,2 that a case of syringocystadenoma papilliferum associated with a nevus sebaceus is submitted for publication. Furthermore, the finding of these two histologically different lesions as a single mixed tumor gives support to the belief that they have a common embryologic origin, the primary epithelial germ.³ Much evidence is already documented showing that the nevus syringocystadenoma papilliferum is a tumor of the apocrine ducts, having developed as a hamartoma through dysembryogenesis. The nevus sebaceus also has as its anlage an epidermal appendage, namely, the sebaceous gland. Since the anlage for the sebaceous and apocrine glands, as . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
York, Pa.,; Baltimore

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 22, 1957.

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