Malignant acrospiroma of chest and abdominal wall treated with chemotherapy

Acrospiroma denotes a group of benign ductal tumours of the eccrine sweat glands that may or may not be connected to the skin. Although various eccrine sweat gland tumours including benign acrospiroma are widely reviewed, malignant acrospiroma is rarely reported. Malignant acrospiroma have the prope...

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Published inIndian journal of dermatology Vol. 58; no. 3; p. 241
Main Authors Bandyopadhyay, Anis, Das, Mou, Jana, Sukumar, Das, Anuradha
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published India Medknow Publications 01.05.2013
Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd
Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd
Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Subjects
Axillary lymphadenopathy
Cancer
Carcinoma, Ductal
Care and treatment
Case studies
Chemotherapy
Dermatology
Diagnosis
E-Case Report
eccrine
Health aspects
malignant acrospiroma
Patient outcomes
Risk factors
Skin
sweat gland carcinoma
India
malignant acrospiroma
Axillary lymphadenopathy
sweat gland carcinoma
chemotherapy
eccrine
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Summary:Acrospiroma denotes a group of benign ductal tumours of the eccrine sweat glands that may or may not be connected to the skin. Although various eccrine sweat gland tumours including benign acrospiroma are widely reviewed, malignant acrospiroma is rarely reported. Malignant acrospiroma have the propensity to recur locally and metastasizes to regional lymph nodes. The primary treatment is wide local excision with or without lymph node dissection. Local radiation is added in the presence of high risk features to reduce the risk of recurrence. We describe a case of a malignant acrospiroma involving wide areas of chest and abdominal wall with metastases to bilateral axillary lymph nodes in a 47 year old man showing minimal clinical response to combination chemotherapy and paclitaxel.
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ISSN:0019-5154
1998-3611
DOI:10.4103/0019-5154.110849