TRICHILEMMOMA

TRICHILEMMOMA
  • Common site – face or neck
  • Age – Adult age group
  • Clinical presentation – Solitary slow growing tumor or multiple lesions occur in Cowden’s syndrome.
  • Morphology:
    • It is typically lobulated with follicle centred proliferation of bland uniform polyhedral cells with clear glycogenated cytoplasm, surrounded by cuff of basement membrane material.
    • Tumor cells demonstrate peripheral nuclear palisading in lobules.
    • Lobules of cells often coalase producing a nodular mass in dermis.
    • Desmoplastic trichiemmoma is a type of trichilemmoma which shows pseudoinfiltrative margins initiated of pushing margins and have fusiform  tumor cells with fibromyxoid change in the underlying stroma.