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Case Number : Case 806 - 19th July Posted By: Guest

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65 years-old male. Lesion behind ear; several prior NMSC's.

Case posted by Dr. Richard Carr.


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Guest Romualdo

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Microcystic adnexal carcinoma, despite the presence of focal atypia.

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Guest Maria George

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invasive squamous cell carcinoma versus carcinosacoma.

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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I will diagnose this as invasive follicular SCC with focal spindle cell changes.

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Robledo F. Rocha

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There’s a sly stratification that gives to this tumor the appearance of a microcystic adnexal carcinoma, but the wide connection to the epidermis, the obvious nuclear anaplasia, and the focal spindle-cell component compel me to consider infundibulocystic squamous cell carcinoma as the most likely diagnosis.

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Guest Rodrigo Restrepo

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Microcystic adnexal carcinoma

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Sasi Attili

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My DD includes MAC and Squamoid Eccrine ductal Carcinoma (essentially a low grade locally invasive epidermal tumour), favour the latter.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Hey Phillip - what an honour. Great responses today - well done on a difficult case - I don't think it can be over-emphasied how difficult this diagnosis can be in real life in small biopsies. I called this MAC (the keratocysts in this case are typical - and can easily cause confusion with follicular tumours - some believe MAC is a mixed follicular - ductal lesion in any case). I agree a report along the lines of a low-grade infiltrative carcinoma is appropriate with advice that the patient may possibly have extensive disease and margin control surgery should be considered. The ductal differentiation (as in this case) can be exceedingly focal especially in superficial biopsies. Interestingly the patient had a "second lesion" nearby that an experienced colleague brought to me as ?syringoma. In fact it was all one process and the patient ended up having a large excision at Moh's surgery. The cellular atypia present in this case is not typical but the lesion lacked appreciable mitotic activity of a more high grade (adenosquamous) carcinoma. I do agree the "reactive" stroma is rather cellular / prominent fibroblastic in this case (and that was a feature of the original case series as were the basaloid cords).

Regards to all and enjoy your weekeds - I will be enjoying the Golf, Cricket and Tour de France, we are having an amazing drought / heat wave in UK that is set to last another month or two.

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