Steatocystoma Multiplex, Cyst - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

steatocystoma multiplex cyst

Body Site

neck

Age

28 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

grouped, clustered

Color

yellow

Morphology

plaqulous (plaque / nodule / tumor)

Pattern

central (centrifugal - trunk predominant) symmetric

Comments

This young woman developed an increasing number of yellow papules and cysts on her neck, chest, and abdomen. Although not usually symptomatic, she occasionally developed painful nodules one of which healed with a purple hypertrophic scar on the right side of her neck. Her father, sister, and multiple other family members on her father's side had variable numbers of similar lesions.

Description

multiple symmetric 3mm- 1.5 cm yellow papules and cysts some with central open comedones

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2/17/2004 7:04:22

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