treatment:
• | Light electrodessication followed by 70% TCA |
• | Accutane 10QD (vs. 20 to 40QD for the first 5 -7 days each month) |
• | Joseph Bikowski treatment "pearl": sebaceous hyperplasia - Accutane 40mg/ week |
Other Sebaceous Gland physical findings: (all are normal variants and not disease)
• | juxtaclavicular beaded lines |
• | hamartoma moniliformis – normal variant in which there is minor fibrosis around otherwise apparently normal follicular structures on the nose, temples, forehead, and neck |
• | Fordyce spots = ectopic sebaceous glands best seen on buccal mucosa just inside lips |
• | also seen on penis, vulva, and areola |
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