Malignant eccrine acrospiroma with nodal and bone metastasis

Abstract

Acrospiromas are cutaneous tumors of sweat duct differentiation. Although various eccrine sweat gland tumours including benign acrospiroma are widely reviewed, malignant acrospiroma is rarely reported. Clinically, they resemble other cutaneous lesions and the primary treatment is wide local excision with or without lymph node dissection. The efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy requires further investigation.

Keywords

Acrospiroma / metastasis / chemotherapy / radiotherapy

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