Multiple eccrine hidrocystomas: successful treatment with the 595 nm long-pulsed dye laser.

A 67-year-old Korean woman presented with a 4-year history of multiple small papules around the eyes. The lesions increased in number and size during the summer and after a hot bath or heavy exercise. Physical examination showed multiple, dome-shaped, bluish to skin-colored papules, some of which were translucent, over periorbital areas (Figure 1). Histopathologic examination showed solitary dermal cysts lined with two layers of small cuboidal cells, consistent with eccrine hidrocystoma.

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