Squamoid eccrine ductal carcinoma: a case report

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 173 - 177, 04.03.2020

Zeynep Bayramoğlu , Betül Ünal

https://doi.org/10.18621/eurj.502357

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Squamoid
eccrine ductal carcinoma (SEDC) is a subtype of malignant tumours of skin
appendices, showing eccrine and apocrine differentiation. It is a rare tumour
and making a histopathological diagnosis is difficult. Our patient was a
79-year-old male, presenting to our hospital with the complaint of a long-term
persistent wound in the scalp. An excisional biopsy was performed due to a
preliminary diagnosis of a pyogenic granuloma. However, the patient was
diagnosed with squamoid eccrine ductal carcinoma. Although an excisional biopsy
was performed, the tumour was present on the surgical margins. Consequently,
the patient underwent an extended re-excision but the tumour was detected at
the surgical margins again. We aimed to present this case as SEDC is a rare
tumour. 

Keywords

eccrine gland, appendageal skin tumour, squamous eccrine ductal carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma

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