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La maladie de Fox Fordyce péri sternale: un cas rare et atypique

Syringomas are benign tumors of cutaneous appendages of eccrine or apocrine origin affecting approximately 1% of the population. They mainly occur in women and they commonly manifest as soft skin-colored or slightly yellowish papules on the lower eyelid and the upper part of the cheeks. More rarely,...

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Autores principales: Barbach, Younes, Mernissi, Fatima Zahra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6607458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31303946
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.1.17077
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description Syringomas are benign tumors of cutaneous appendages of eccrine or apocrine origin affecting approximately 1% of the population. They mainly occur in women and they commonly manifest as soft skin-colored or slightly yellowish papules on the lower eyelid and the upper part of the cheeks. More rarely, syringomas can even occur on the neck, the armpits, the breasts, the lower portion of the abdomen, the thighs and the groin. Clinically, they can be distinguished from xanthelasmas, warts or cancers because they are monomorphic and have a regular distribution. In doubtful cases, the diagnosis is confirmed by biopsy. Syringomas can be easily detected on histological examination due to the presence of comma-shaped sweat ducts in the dermis. Even though syringomas are benign tumors, their appearance can be embarrassing to the patients. Therapeutic options, mainly supported by small case series and case reports, include surgical excision, electrodessication, curettage, chemical exfoliation, cryosurgery and laser treatment. However, as these tumors lie deep in the dermis, all treatments are associated with a substantial risk of recurrence and can cause scars and skin pigment changes. We here report the case of a 40-year old woman with no previous history, presenting with skin-colored periorbital papules whose histological examination showed syringomas.
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spelling pubmed-66074582019-07-12 La maladie de Fox Fordyce péri sternale: un cas rare et atypique Barbach, Younes Mernissi, Fatima Zahra Pan Afr Med J Images in Medicine Syringomas are benign tumors of cutaneous appendages of eccrine or apocrine origin affecting approximately 1% of the population. They mainly occur in women and they commonly manifest as soft skin-colored or slightly yellowish papules on the lower eyelid and the upper part of the cheeks. More rarely, syringomas can even occur on the neck, the armpits, the breasts, the lower portion of the abdomen, the thighs and the groin. Clinically, they can be distinguished from xanthelasmas, warts or cancers because they are monomorphic and have a regular distribution. In doubtful cases, the diagnosis is confirmed by biopsy. Syringomas can be easily detected on histological examination due to the presence of comma-shaped sweat ducts in the dermis. Even though syringomas are benign tumors, their appearance can be embarrassing to the patients. Therapeutic options, mainly supported by small case series and case reports, include surgical excision, electrodessication, curettage, chemical exfoliation, cryosurgery and laser treatment. However, as these tumors lie deep in the dermis, all treatments are associated with a substantial risk of recurrence and can cause scars and skin pigment changes. We here report the case of a 40-year old woman with no previous history, presenting with skin-colored periorbital papules whose histological examination showed syringomas. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6607458/ /pubmed/31303946 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.1.17077 Text en © Younes Barbach et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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La maladie de Fox Fordyce péri sternale: un cas rare et atypique
title La maladie de Fox Fordyce péri sternale: un cas rare et atypique
title_full La maladie de Fox Fordyce péri sternale: un cas rare et atypique
title_fullStr La maladie de Fox Fordyce péri sternale: un cas rare et atypique
title_full_unstemmed La maladie de Fox Fordyce péri sternale: un cas rare et atypique
title_short La maladie de Fox Fordyce péri sternale: un cas rare et atypique
title_sort la maladie de fox fordyce péri sternale: un cas rare et atypique
topic Images in Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6607458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31303946
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.1.17077
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