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===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Feature:
Features:
*Cyst lining has a granular layer - '''key feature'''.<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1058907-diagnosis http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1058907-diagnosis]. Accessed on: 18 March 2011.</ref>  
*Cyst lining has a granular layer - '''key feature'''.<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1058907-diagnosis http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1058907-diagnosis]. Accessed on: 18 March 2011.</ref>  
*Trapped collagen bundles at edge of lesion with surrounded by fibroblasts.
*Trapped collagen bundles at edge of lesion with surrounded by fibroblasts.
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DDx:  
DDx:  
*Dermatofibrosarcoma - if lesion is large.
*[[Dermatofibrosarcoma]] - if lesion is large.
*Pilar cyst - no granular layer.
*[[Pilar cyst]] - no granular layer.
 
==Pilar cyst==
===General===
*Very common.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:
*Keratin.
*Cyst lining has no granular layer - '''key feature'''.
*Trapped collagen bundles at edge of lesion with surrounded by fibroblasts.
 
DDx:
*[[Epidermal cyst]] - has a granular layer.


==See also==
==See also==
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