Title |
Red nodule on the face with “spontaneous” regression*
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Published in |
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1590/abd1806-4841.20175540 |
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Authors |
Celia Sanchis-Sánchez, Sergio Santos-Alarcón, Felipe César Benavente-Villegas, Almudena Mateu-Puchades, María Pilar Soriano-Sarrió |
Abstract |
Pseudolymphomatous folliculitis is a rare entity included among the cutaneous pseudolymphomas. A 32-year-old man, with an unremarkable medical history, presented with a two-month history of an asymptomatic solitary nodule on his left cheek. Histopathological examination demonstrated a dense nodular and diffuse dermal lymphocytic infiltrate with numerous histiocytes and dendritic cells that surrounded hypertrophic hair follicles. Pseudolymphomatous folliculitis commonly presents in the fourth decade of life, with no sex predominance, as an asymptomatic, rapidly growing and solitary red dome-shaped nodule on the face. It has a benign clinical course as the lesions usually resolve with surgical excision or regress spontaneously after incisional biopsy. Although there is no report of pseudolymphomatous folliculitis progressing into lymphoma in the literature, follow-up of these patients is recommended. |
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