Clinical Features:

• Indurated lesion, most common on the face
• Most common in young women, but can be seen at any age
• Frequently recur, but rarely if ever metastasize
• Associated with prior radiation therapy

Histologic Features:

• Dermal islands and cords of epithelial cells with mild atypia, focally forming lumina and keratinous cysts
• Mitotic figures are rare.
• Fibrotic to sclerotic stroma
• Invades deep into the dermis, and may infiltrate the subcutaneous fat, skeletal muscle and nerves

Cases associated with this book:

Microcystic adnexal carcinoma
Author: Artur Zembowicz M.D. Ph.D.

Conference: DermatopathologyConsultations.com Teaching Collection