Eruptive Vellus Hair Cysts of The Face

Abstract

We report a 56-year-old Japanese man who developed over two hundred asymptomatic blue-black papules disseminated mainly on the forehead and both cheeks. Except for the unusual anatomical location, the clinical appearance and histological features were in accord with those of eruptive vellus hair cysts and we diagnosed this case as one of eruptive vellus hair cysts of the face. To our knowledge, this is the third such case reported in the literature.