Rare diseases · Sign or symptom

Hair follicle neoplasm

HP:0012843

What it means

An uncontrolled autonomous cell-proliferation originating in a hair follicle, which is an epidermal adnexal structures responsible for hair growth.

Part of the broader category

Hair follicle neoplasm

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