Trichofolliculoma is a rare hair follicle hamartoma, which is often regarded as a hair follicle tumor. Mostly, it presents as a papule or nodule, involving the skin of the face and scalp area. A central, dilated keratin plugged ostium with vellus hair(s) is often present. We report a 19-year-old woman with typical clinical and histopathological findings of trichofolliculoma.

Two cases of Squamous cell carcinoma are recorded in zebu cattle of Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. Lesions showed different clinical aspects Papule and cauliflower like growths placed at level of nictinating membrane of eye and interdigital spaces of hind limb respectively. Cytology and histopathological examination revealed well and poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinomas respectively.

In reports of clinical cases of leprosy one can read: ‘presence of papules and nodules or papulo-nodular lesions’. In a leprosy patient there can be present either papules or nodules but not these two elementary lesions together. It is reported in books of dermatology that: “papule is a solid elevated lesion up to 1 cm of diameter”. It is also reported: “papules are usually caused by an infiltr...

Lyme serology was positive for both IgG and IgM (ELISA, Enzygnost Borreliosis , Siemens, Dade Behring, Germany, and blot, Euroline WB , Euroimmun, Germany). A punch biopsy of a papule showed a dermal perifollicular ( fig. 2 ) – and occasionnally perineural – infiltrate of lymphocytes and plasma cells, consistent with a borrelial infection. Borrelia burgdorferi DNA was amplified from fresh tissu...

Eccrine spiradenoma is an uncommon benign adnexal tumour of apocrine differentiation. It is commonly seen in young adults with no sex predilection on upper ventral aspect of body as a solitary papule or nodule. Here we are reporting a rare case of Multiple Eccrine Spiradenoma (MES) in a 29 year male patient, who presented with multiple nodules on the anterior chest wall.

A patient with long-standing urticaria pigmentosa presented with a pea-sized reddish to purplish papule on the posterior part of the right ear. Histopathologic examination revealed numerous dilated vascular structures in the upper dermis and mast cell infiltrations throughout the whole dermis, consistent with combined mastocytoma-hemangioma. The mast cells were strongly positive with Giemsa stain.

Epidermolytic acanthoma (EA) is a rare benign lesion described by Shapiro and Baraf in 1970. It typically presents clinically as a solitary, asymptomatic verrucous papule. Histologically, there is an epidermal proliferation (acanthoma) with epidermolytic hyperkeratosis, without the concomitant presence of signs suggestive of other cutaneous tumors. The presence of multiple EAs in the genital an...

Trichofolliculoma is a rare hair follicle hamartoma, which is often regarded as a hair follicle tumor. Mostly, it presents as a papule or nodule, involving the skin of the face and scalp area. A central, dilated keratin plugged ostium with vellus hair(s) is often present. We report a 19-year-old woman with typical clinical and histopathological findings of trichofolliculoma.