Open AccessA clinico-histopathological study of appendageal skin tumors, affecting head and neck region in patients attending the dermatology OPD of a tertiary care centre in Eastern India
Author(s) -
Abanti Saha,
Nilay Kanti Das,
Ramesh Chandra Gharami,
Satyendra Nath Chowdhury,
P. C. Datta
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of dermatology/indian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1998-3611
pISSN - 0019-5154
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5154.77548
Subject(s) - medicine , histopathology , dermatology , trichoepithelioma , head and neck , population , histopathological examination , pathology , surgery , basal cell carcinoma , basal cell , environmental health
Appendageal skin tumors (ATs) are those neoplasms that differentiate toward/arise from pilosebaceous apparatus, apocrine, or eccrine sweat glands. Pilosebaceous apparatus are concentrated in head-neck area; thus it is expected that ATs would account for a major fraction of skin tumors over this site.