Reticulated acanthoma with sebaceous differentiation mimicking melanoma

Dermatol Pract Concept. 2017 Jul 31;7(3):35-37. doi: 10.5826/dpc.0703a07. eCollection 2017 Jul.

Abstract

Reticulated acanthoma with sebaceous differentiation (RASD) is a rare, benign cutaneous tumor with peculiar histopathologic characteristics [1]. RASD had been described under various synonyms such as superficial epithelioma with sebaceous differentiation, sebocrine adenoma, poroma with sebaceous differentiation, and seborrheic keratosis with sebaceous differentiation [2]. Clinical differential diagnosis of RASD includes cutaneous superficial epithelial neoplasia such as Bowen's disease, superficial basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and intraepidermal eccrine poroma [1]. We report the first case of RASD mimicking both clinically and dermoscopically a melanoma.

Keywords: RASD; dermatoscopy; dermoscopy; histopathology; melanoma; mimicker; reticulated acanthoma with sebaceous differentiation.