Papillary eccrine adenoma

Skin - Nonmelanocytic tumors
Adnexal tumors - eccrine sweat glands
Papillary eccrine adenoma

Author: Christopher Hale, M.D. (see Authors page)

Revised: 6 October 2016, last major update June 2012

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Definition / general

Usually distal extremities of blacks
Recur locally, don’t metastasize

Case reports

28 year old man with a solitary mildly tender nodule on right hand (Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2004;70:370)

Microscopic (histologic) description

Eccrine duct-like structures, often dilated and with intraluminal papillomatosis

Microscopic (histologic) images

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Electron microscopy description

Differentiation towards secretory epithelium of sweat glands

Differential diagnosis