Sonographic Findings of an Eccrine Spiradenoma

An eccrine spiradenoma is a rare benign dermal tumor of the sweat gland. It is frequently solitary and presents as a small lesion (usually <1 cm) in the cutis and the subcutaneous tissue. 1 Because of its rare incidence and the lack of imaging workups for small superficial soft tissue nodules, few cases describing the imaging findings of an eccrine spiradenoma and other tumors of the sweat glands have been reported. We report the sonographic findings in a case of an eccrine spiradenoma that originated from the upper arm and discuss the previously reported imaging findings of sweat gland tumors.

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