Korean J Dermatol.
2009 Jun;47(6):729-731.
A Case of Areolar Sebaceous Hyperplasia
- Affiliations
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- 1 Department of Dermatology, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Korea. leejd@olmh.cuk.ac.kr
Abstract
- Sebaceous hyperplasia commonly occurs on the face and occasionally on the neck. The other less common sites include the penis, vulva and areola. The typical clinical features are 2~3 mm sized, creamy or yellowish, umbilicated papules. Histopathologically, a number of mature sebaceous lobules connected to the centrally-located dilated sebaceous ducts are grouped in the upper dermis and they are associated with hair follicles. We report here on a case of a 52-year-old woman who had a solitary, 3 mm-sized papule on the areola, and the papule's histopathologic findings showed numerous mature sebaceous lobules surrounding wide sebaceous ducts.
