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steatocystoma

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steatocystoma /ste·a·to·cys·to·ma/ (ste″ah-to-sis-to´mah) an epidermal cyst having an intricately infolded thin epidermal lining, without a granular layer, containing an oily liquid and often abortive hair follicles, lanugo hair, and sebaceous apocrine, or eccrine, glands.
steatocystoma mul´tiplex  development of numerous steatocystomas; often an autosomal dominant disorder chiefly affecting males at birth or presenting about the time of puberty.

ste·a·to·cys·to·ma (st-t-s-stm)
n.
1. A cyst with cells of a sebaceous gland in its wall.

steatocystoma [ste″ah-to-sis-to´mah]
an epithelial cyst.
steatocystoma mul´tiplex steatomatosis, a rare hereditary condition in which multiple cutaneous epithelial cysts containing oily liquid, abortive hair follicles, and sebaceous glands occur on the trunk and limbs.

steatocystoma
a human term for an epithelial cyst.


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In the case associated with steatocystoma multiplex,[11] there was epithelioid cell reaction around the lesion but no foreign body type reaction directly against the myospherules.
 
 
 
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