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Multiple infundibular tumours of the head and neck
Author(s) -
FINDLAY G.H.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1989.tb01348.x
Subject(s) - infundibulum , head and neck , prurigo , medicine , follicular phase , dermatology , pathology , anatomy , surgery
SUMMARY A condition of multiple benign and sometimes self‐healing infundibular tumours of the skin is described. It affects the sun‐exposed areas of the head and neck in Caucasians. The individual lesions consist of a cluster of thick pockets, representing in many details the supra‐sebaceous portions of the follicular unit. Follicular poroma, tumours of the deeper part of the follicular infundibulum, virus warts, inverted follicular keratosis and prurigo nodules do not correspond adequately with the appearances described in the present series of six cases.