Eccrine poroma

Eccrine poroma
Updated: 03/28/2019
© Jun Wang, MD, PhD

General features
  • Usually benign
  • Most common at palms and soles
  • Cords and nests of small keratinocytes sharply delimited from adjacent epidermis
Clinical features
Pathological features
Management
  • Excision



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