Blocked sebaceous glands in vagina

By permission of the publisher. From Spitzer M, Mann M. Edited by M Stenchever series editor and B Goff. Philadelphia, Current Medicine,

DermNet provides Google Translate, a free machine translation service. Note that this may not provide an exact translation in all languages. Sebeceous adenitis is a skin disease in which inflammation of sebaceous glands is found on histopathological examination of the affected skin. Sebaceous adenitis has rarely been described on the face in males and females and on the vulva of women. It has been more commonly described in dogs, which present with quite different symptoms — dandruff and hair loss.

Try out PMC Labs and tell us what you think. Learn More. Vulval swellings have always caused dilemmas in diagnosis and more so when they are huge in size. Sebaceous cysts are known to occur as a result of blocked pilo-sebaceous gland and duct or as a result of any injury to the skin. Face, neck, chest, back, scalp, and ears are known sites, however, they also occur over private parts.

Try out PMC Labs and tell us what you think. Learn More. Correct and rapid diagnosis of skin tumours often requires biopsy and histopathological examination to differentiate benign lesions such as seborrhoeic keratoses or melanocytic naevi from premalignant and malignant lesions such as malignant melanoma. Particularly, to the untrained eye, any benign skin tumour—pigmented or nonpigmented—is easily mistaken for a malignant lesion.