Brooke-Spiegler Syndrome: A rare cause of skin appendageal tumor

Abstract

A 51-year-old women presented with asymptomatic multiple polypoidal nodules over scalp with simultaneous papularnodular skin eruptions involving nose, nasolabial folds and forehead for 40 years duration. Her daughter also noted to be having multiple papularnodular skin eruptions involving nose, nasolabial folds and forehead which raised curiosity of possible familial condition. The punch biopsy of polypoidal nodule indicating histological evidence of spiradenoma was favour in diagnosis of Brook Spienger Syndrome. We report this case as this is a rare clinical entity. Case Report Brooke-Spiegler Syndrome: A rare cause of skin appendageal tumor N Suganthan1*, S Pirasath2 and DD Dikowita2 1Consultant, Physician and Senior Lecturer, University Medical Unit, Teaching Hospital, Jaffna, Sri Lanka 2Registrar, University Medical Unit, Teaching Hospital, Jaffna, Sri Lanka *Address for Correspondence: Dr. N Suganthan, Consultant, Physician and Senior Lecturer, University Medical Unit, Teaching Hospital, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Email: drn.suganthan@yahoo.com Submitted: 12 October 2018 Approved: 31 October 2018 Published: 01 November 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Suganthan N, et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited