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hidradenitis

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Also known as Hidradenitis (disorder), Hydradenitis

Hidradenitis is any disease in which the histologic abnormality is primarily an inflammatory infiltrate around the eccrine glands. This group includes neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis and recurrent palmoplantar hidradenitis.

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Hidradenitis

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Hidradenitis is any disease in which the histologic abnormality is primarily an inflammatory infiltrate around the eccrine glands. This group includes neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis and recurrent palmoplantar hidradenitis.

It can also be defined more generally as an inflammation of sweat glands.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hidradenitis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.