Dermoscopic Features of Eccrine Porocarcinoma Arising from Hidroacanthoma Simplex

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Eccrine porocarcinoma is a rare cutaneous neoplasm that mainly affects elderly people and grows slowly over a long period of time but often experiences an accelerated growth phase.

Eccrine porocarcinoma may arise de novo or evolve from a pre-existing benign eccrine poroma.

We reported a 86-year-old Japanese woman presenting with two reddish-colored pendulated lesions on a keratotic light brown plaque on the right thigh.

Dermoscopic examination of the light-brown plaque demonstrated many whitish globular structures in a light-brown background.

At the two reddish-colored pendulated lesions, polymorphous and prominent vessel proliferation was observed together with irregularly shaped whitish negative network.

Immunohistochemical study demonstrated a positive CEA staining at ductal structures and atypical clear cells of reddish nodules.

A diagnosis of eccrine porocarcinoma arising in a pigmented hidroacanthoma simplex was eventually established, and the dermoscopic features of eccrine porocarcinoma from hidroacanthoma simplex was described for the first time.