Biomedicine

Abstract

A 50-year-old patient presented with a history of a longstanding, non-healing skin lesion with 15 years
duration, which was clinically diagnosed as a case of skin cancer which had high probability as squamous
cell carcinoma and later with histopathological evaluation it was confirmed to be a rare sweat gland tumor
“eccrine acrospiroma”. Eccrine acrospiroma is a relatively rare sweat gland tumor that affects people of all
age groups and can involve any area of the body and is usually 1 to 2 cm in size and rarely may attain sizeable
proportions. In1969, Johnson and Helwig introduced the term “eccrine acrospiroma”. The majority of the
tumors are benign. Clinically these lack diagnostic specificity and should be differentiated from other nodular
and cystic lesions.