Detection of human papillomavirus type 39 in a seborrheic inclusion cyst of the buttock.

A seborrheic inclusion cyst (SIC) is a lesion, which has been described as a combination of seborrheic keratosis and an epidermoid cyst (EC). To the best of our knowledge, only eight cases of SIC have been reported thus far in the English literature[1-3]. Microscopically, SICs exhibit features that are suggestive of viral infection[4]. Therefore, an association between SICs and human papillomavirus (HPV) has been suspected, but it has only been demonstrated in one previous report by Terada,[1] which identified an HPV-positive SIC through immunohistochemical staining for HPV antigens. However, no SIC study has ever used HPV genotyping. Herein, we report the first case of SIC associated with HPV type 39, which we identified using the HPV DNA chip.