Tubular Apocrine Adenoma – A Case Report of Rare Sweat Gland Tumor

Abstract

Tubular apocrine adenomas (TAA) are rare, benign, slow growing, Skin adnexal tumors with limited reported cases in literature. Tubular apocrine adenomas resemble papillary eccrine adenomas, and these two tumors were once regarded as identical.[17] Here we present a case of tubular apocrine adenoma in a 47 years old female.

A Rare Sweat Gland Tumour- Immunohistochemical Features

“…The term tubulopapillaryhidradenoma describes benign sweat gland tumors, characterized by combining ductal as well as apocrine and eccrine glandular differentiation which include both papillary eccrine adenoma and tubular apocrine adenoma [5]. Tubular apocrine adenoma usually presents on the scalp as superficial dermal nodule and shares the histological features of papillary eccrine adenoma, except that the latter has a peripheral myoepithelial cell layer.…”