Cowden syndrome

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Cowden syndrome, AKA Cowden syndrome, is constellation of findings due to a PTEN gene mutation.

Clinical

Features:[1]

  • Hamartomatous polyps.
  • Facial trichilemmomas (hair follicle root sheath epithelium tumour).
  • Oral papillomas.
  • Acral keratoses (peripheral keratoses).

Microscopic

Features:

  • Hamartomatous polyp - features non-specific. (???)

References

  1. ↑ Cotran, Ramzi S.; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Nelso Fausto; Robbins, Stanley L.; Abbas, Abul K. (2005). Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease (7th ed.). St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Saunders. pp. 858-9. ISBN 0-7216-0187-1.
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