Gland, Secretion, Adnexa - Apocrine Hidrocystoma

Anubha Bajaj

Department of Histopathology, A.B. Diagnostics, India

Dr. Anubha Bajaj, Department of Histopathology, A.B. Diagnostics, India.

Keywords: Apocrine Hidrocystoma; Cystic Dilatation; Clinical Elucidation

Abstract

Preface
Apocrine hidrocystoma was initially described by Mehregan in 1893. A terminology of “black hidrocystoma “was precedent for pigmented apocrine hidrocytsoma. The benign tumefaction is frequent in adults and depicts an equivalent gender or a slight female predisposition [1].
A cystic dilatation of apocrine secretory glands is incurred on account of blockage of apocrine or eccrine sweat glands and the sequential lesions are cogitated as hidrocystoma. Secretions of apocrine glands discharge into hair follicles followed by an effluence onto the skin surface. Modified apocrine glands are cogent as glands of Moll situated in the eyelids, ceruminous glands in the external ear and as the mammary glands.
Hidrocystoma is additionally termed as a sudoriferous cyst and emerges as an infrequent, benign adnexal sweat gland tumour. Miniature benign sweat gland tumours demonstrate an apocrine or eccrine subcategorization on account of mechanics of glandular secretions.

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