Abstract
There are two types of sweat glands in the human body: eccrine and apocrine. Eccrine glands are the smaller, numerous glands that are diffusely distributed all over the body and are under thermal control. These are most abundant in axillae, palms and soles. Apocrine glands are the larger glands found in axillae, perineum and mammary glands and are the phylogenetic remnant of the mammalian sexual scent glands. Acrospiroma is a benign sweat gland tumour, traditionally classified as a tumour of eccrine gland origin, however, there has been evidence of apocrine origin in some lesions. We present the ultrasound and mammographic findings in a case of eccrine acrospiroma in the axillary tail of the breast in a 77-year-old woman. There have been a few case reports describing the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) characteristics of this tumour, but there has been no prior description of the ultrasound findings in the literature to the best of our knowledge.
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