The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine
Case Report
A Case of Multiple Eccrine Hidrocystoma
Hyun Ok Kim, Jeong Hee Hahm, Hong Il Kook
Published Online: Jul 24, 2015
Abstract
Eccrine hidrocystoma is small, translucent, smooth, shiny and often bluish colored, domeshaped cystic structure that occurs most often in a periobital area. The histologic finding of an intradermal cyst with a thin wall composed of two layers of eosinophilic-staining cuboidal cells in dilated eccrine glandular & ductal sturcture.
We present a case of multiple eccrine hidrocystoma occuring on the face, especially both eyelids & cheeks in a 70-year-old female patient.