pilar cyst

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pilar cyst - a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked

sebaceous cyst, steatocystoma, wen

chalazion, Meibomian cyst - a small sebaceous cyst of the eyelid resulting when a Meibomian gland is blocked

cyst - a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure

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[6] It is a large, solitary, multilobulated lesion that may arise within a trichilemmal cyst (Pilar cyst).

RARE CASE OF MALIGNANT PROLIFERATING TRICHILEMMAL TUMOUR

Pilomatrixoma (19.13%) was the most common tumor encountered in the study followed by pilar cyst (14.89%).

"Troublesome tumors" of the skin: Spectrum of skin adnexal tumors at a tertiary care center in Malwa region

In addition to the pilar cyst feature, the histopathology of malignant proliferative trichilemmal tumor shows excessive epithelial proliferation, variable cytologic atypia, mitotic activity, atypical mitosis, nuclear polymorphism, adjacent invasion, and metastasis.