Acta Médica Portuguesa (Mar 2018)

Hidradenocarcinoma of the Scrotum with Lymph Node Metastasis

  • Maria Inês Simões,
  • Isabel Marcão,
  • Mário Toscano,
  • Luís Borges

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20344/amp.9017
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 31, no. 3
pp. 176 – 179

Abstract

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Hidradenocarcinoma is a rare neoplasm of the eccrine cells of the sweat glands, usually asymptomatic with slow growing and higher incidence between 50 and 80 years, occurring in both sexes and preferentially located in the palmar, plantar, frontal, axillary and nuchal regions. It has an aggressive behavior, with high rate of local recurrence and distance metastasis, associated with a poor prognosis. We present a case of hidradenocarcinoma of the scrotum manifested by lymph node metastasis through an exercise of clinical and histological differential diagnosis of an inguinal adenopathy in a young adult.

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