Sebum carcinoma

The sebum gland carcinoma is a rare but aggressive tumor in the head and neck area that originates in the sebum glands . A distinction is made between ocular sebum carcinoma, which affects the eyelids, and extraocular sebum carcinoma, which affects the rest of the body.

This tumor occurs mainly in people over 70 years of age and usually affects the eye. The nodular, reddish or yellow tumor grows quickly, is easily mistaken for inflammation , and is five millimeters to five centimeters in size.

Surgical removal is necessary. If there is no treatment, metastases usually form in the regional lymph nodes after one to two years . To metastasis or recurrence occurs in one third of patients with ocular sebaceous carcinoma.

The tumor also occurs in the context of Muir-Torre syndrome .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ B. Spautz, A. Hoffmann-Fazel, S. Maune: The sebum carcinoma - a rare tumor in the head and neck area. In: ENT information (congress abstracts) 2005; 84 - 433. Accessed online on February 16, 2017.
2. ↑ Online encyclopedia of dermatology, venereology, allergology and environmental medicine.
3. ↑ Braun-Falco, Plewig, Wolff, Burgdorf, Landthaler: Dermatology and Venereology. Springer Medizin Verlag Heidelberg 2005, p. 1296. Accessed online on February 16, 2017.

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