Sebaceous neoplasms: Just the thin end of the wedge

Aikaterini Kyriakou; Nikiforos Galanis; Eliza Stavride; Aikaterini Patsatsi; Elizabeth Lazaridou; Eleftherios Tsiridis

doi:10.1002/ccr3.2627

Sebaceous neoplasms: Just the thin end of the wedge

Clin Case Rep. 2020 Jan 22;8(2):393-395. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.2627. eCollection 2020 Feb.

Authors

Aikaterini Kyriakou¹, Nikiforos Galanis², Eliza Stavride³, Aikaterini Patsatsi¹, Elizabeth Lazaridou¹, Eleftherios Tsiridis²

Affiliations

¹ 2nd Department of Dermatology and Venereology "Papageorgiou" General Hospital Aristotle University School of Medicine Thessaloniki Greece.
² Department of Orthopaedics "Papageorgiou" General Hospital Aristotle University School of Medicine Thessaloniki Greece.
³ Department of Radiology Papageorgiou General Hospital Thessaloniki Greece.

Abstract

The presence of sebaceous neoplasm should alert physicians to thoroughly investigate for underlying malignancies. Awareness on MTS should be raised within physicians, since this may be just the thin end of the wedge.

Keywords: Muir‐Torre syndrome; malignancy; sebaceous tumors.