Follicular hybrid cyst: a combination of bullous pilomatricoma and epidermoid cyst.

Follicular hybrid cyst: a combination of bullous pilomatricoma and epidermoid cyst.
Int J Clin Exp Pathol. 2013;6(12):3019-22
Authors: Sanusi T, Qu X, Li Y, Zhang J, Wang M, Zhao Y, Yang Z, An X, Qian Y, Wang C, Chen H, Chen S, Huang C
Abstract
The follicular hybrid is composed of more than two components of pilosebaceous unit. There are several studies of hybrid cyst, combination of trichilemmal and epidermoid cyst was the most frequently reported. In this paper, we reported one case of hybrid cyst composed of bullous pilomatricoma and epidermoid cyst. A 14-year-old girl was complaint of a solitary flesh-colored to erythematous nodule with flaccid appearance sized 3.2×1.8 cm in diameter on her right upper back for one year. The histologic findings showed there were edema and proliferation of capillaries in the superficial dermis, a cyst in the middle to deep dermis. There were laminated keratins in the cystic space. The cyst wall was composed of two different components, one was composed of epithelial cells containing of granular layer, and another consisted of basophilic cells, transient cells and shadow cells. The cyst not related with Gardner's syndrome. Hybrid cyst such as trichilemmal cyst, epidermoid and pilomatricoma cysts maybe have same clinical features or mimicking each others, but we can distinguish them from histopathology evaluation.
PMID: 24294394 [PubMed - in process]

Source: International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology - December 5, 2013 Category: Pathology Authors: Sanusi T, Qu X, Li Y, Zhang J, Wang M, Zhao Y, Yang Z, An X, Qian Y, Wang C, Chen H, Chen S, Huang C Tags: Int J Clin Exp Pathol Source Type: research