vellus hair cyst
Abstract and Figures. We report a case of 7-year-old girl. Dermoscopy Distinction Of Eruptive Vellus Hair Cysts With Molluscum Contagiosum And Acne Lesions Alfaro Castellon 2012 Pediatric Dermatology Wiley Online Library Eruptive vellus hair cysts are thought to be the result of occlusion blockage at the level of the infundibulum the part of the hair follicle just below the epidermis subsequent. . This type of hair loss occurs when a hormone called DHT damages hair follicles. Vellus Hair Cyst Low magnification shows a cyst lined by a keratinizing squamous epithelium. Eruptive vellus hair cysts have been reported in the setting of pachyonychia congenita type 2 and in association with mutations in the gene that encodes keratin 6b and. Eruptive vellus hair cysts EVHCs were first described in 1977 by Esterly and colleagues who reported 2 children with symmetrically distributed follicular papules on the. Medical Care Twenty-five percent of erup...