Background: Skin adnexal tumors are a group of skin tumors which differentiate towards hair follicles, sebaceousglands, eccrine and apocrine sweat glands. These tumors are uncommon in routine practice and usually cause diagnostic problems. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of skin adnexal tumors, its correlation
with age group and sex and to study detail histopathological characteristics of each tumor by light microscopy.

Material and Method: A prospective and retrospective study was conducted on 50 cases for four years period (2009to 2013) in department of pathology, ASCOMS, Jammu.

Result: Among the all types of skin appendageal tumors diagnosed 94% were benign and 6% were malignanttumors. Maximum benign tumor cases were seen in age group of 26-50 years and maximum malignant caseswere seen in age group 51-75 years. Tumors were observed most frequently on the scalp in both the sexes. As per
histopathological types of the benign skin appendageal tumors, benign follicular tumor was seen in 23 cases (46%),benign eccrine tumor in 20 cases (40%), benign apocrine in 3 cases (6%) and benign sebaceous tumor in one case(2%).As per histopathological types of malignant tumors, 2 cases of eccrine porocarcinoma and a case of sebaceous
carcinoma were seen.

Conclusion: The incidence of appendageal skin tumors is relatively uncommon. Histopatholgical study of
clinically suspected cases of skin appendageal tumor is a need of an hour.

Keywords: Skin appendageal; Benign tumors; Malignant tumors; Histopathological findings.