A clinico-histopathological study of appendageal skin tumors, affecting head and neck region in patients attending the dermatology OPD of a tertiary care centre in Eastern India

• Main Authors: Abanti Saha (Author), Nilay K Das (Author), Ramesh C Gharami (Author), Satyendra N Chowdhury (Author), Pijush K Datta (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Appendageal skin tumors (ATs) are those neoplasms that differentiate toward/arise from pilosebaceous apparatus, apocrine, or eccrine sweat glands. Pilosebaceous apparatus are concentrated in head−neck area; thus it is expected that ATs would account for a major fraction of skin tumors...