Dermal cylindroma explained

In dermatologic pathology, a dermal cylindroma, also dermal eccrine cylindroma or cutaneous cylindroma^[1]) and (less specifically) cylindroma, is a benign adnexal tumor that occurs on the scalp and forehead.

Multiple cylindromas may grow together in a "hat-like" configuration, sometimes referred to as a turban tumor.^[2] Cylindromas are uncommon dysplasias of skin appendages.

Histology

Dermal cylindromas are:

• Dermal lesions consisting of nests of cells that are surrounded by hyaline (i.e., glassy, eosinophilic, acellular) material and have:
  • Hyperchromatic nuclei that may palisade (columnar nuclei arranged around the periphery of the cell nests with their short axis tangential to the nest periphery), and
  • Cells with lighter staining ovoid nuclei at their centre.

They lack of a significant number of lymphocytes; this differentiates them from spiradenomas.

See also

• Spiradenoma
• Malignant acrospiroma

Notes and References

1. Book: James, William D. . Berger, Timothy G. . Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology . Saunders Elsevier . 2006 . 0-7216-2921-0 . etal.
2. Web site: Cylindroma: Background, Pathophysiology, Epidemiology. 14 July 2021 .