Unilateral naevoid trichoepitheliomas on the face of a child

Clin Exp Dermatol. 2006 Nov;31(6):778-80. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2006.02216.x.

Abstract

Trichoepitheliomas are benign epidermal appendage tumours that present most commonly as solitary lesions, and less often as multiple, symmetrically distributed lesions on the face, scalp, neck and trunk. Only a few patients have been reported in whom trichoepitheliomas were found as unusually configured linear or plaque-like confluent lesions, all of which occurred in patients with skin types V or VI. We describe a white girl with a hemifacial plaque of confluent naevoid trichoepitheliomas, the first report of such lesions in a white patient.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Facial Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Neoplasms, Basal Cell / pathology*
  • Skin Neoplasms / pathology*