Clinicopathologic Profile Of Sweat Gland Tumours

Benign adnexal tumours of the skin, excluding pilosebaceous tumours were identified in 24 patients between the ages of 9 and 70 years with a mean age of 34 years; 17 women and 7 men. Most lesions (n = 13) occurred on the face and scalp. Apocrine hydrocystoma and eccrine acrospiroma were the commonest tumors with apocrine and eccrine differentiation respectively. Few uncommon tumors with included were chondroid syringoma, syringocystadenoma papilliferum. Excisional biopsy is the treatment of choice

Papillary carcinoma in thyroglossal duct cyst: An unusual case

Thyroglossal duct cysts (TDC) are commonly encountered in ENT practice. They are treated by Sistrunk’s operation in which the cyst along with the entire tract and part of hyoid bone is excised to prevent any recurrence. Very rarely TDCs may harbour malignancy. In that situation the management protocol is different. We present the case of a 33-year-old female with the unexpected finding of a papillary carcinoma arising in a submental TDC and is described with special regard to the rarity of the localization and the different options in the management strategy when carcinoma is found incidentally following surgery