Benign and malignant hybrid adnexal tumors in a patient with epidermodysplasia verruciformis

Abstract

Epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV) is a genodermatosis characterized by overgrowth of flat warts, pityriasis versicolor-like lesions and an increased propensity for developing cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas due to abnormal susceptibility to infection with beta-human papilloma viruses. Adnexal tumors are not typically associated with EV. Here we report a spectrum of hybrid adnexal tumors with divergent eccrine and folliculosebaceous differentiation, and cytologic features ranging from benign to frankly atypical, in a patient with inherited EV.

Keywords: HPV-induced tumors; cutaneous adnexal neoplasm; epidermodysplasia verruciformis.