What is it like to be treated for trichoepithelioma?

Skin of face: Trichoepithelioma is the name of a relatively uncommon condition where a single lesion or multiple benign hair follicle tumours arise on the face after puberty. The tumour cells form rudimentary hair follicles but do not form actual hair shafts. There is tendency for multiple trichoepitheliomas to be inherited The condition is more common in females. The tumors are usually small being less than one centimeter, firm, rounded and shiny. They usually increase in number with age, appearing on the cheeks, eyelids and around the nose. The desmoplastic trichoepithelioma is a solitary ring-shaped shiny lesion It is usually excised because it can look like a basal cell carcinoma