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Case Number : Case 810 - 25th July Posted By: Guest

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46-year-old male with right thigh biopsy.


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Guest Saleem Taibjee

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Some lymphoid atypia? CTCL? Obviously needs clinical correlation

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Superficial lymphoid infiltrate, acanthosis with focal parakeratosis and mild spongiosis. The pigments under the inflammatory infiltrate looks like hemossiderin. Pigmented purpuric dermatosis (despite the gender)?

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Guest immediately labrmp

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Lichen aureus based on haemosiderin deposition, extravasation of RBCs and band-like lymphoid infiltration. Dx: PPD-like MF (unlikely)

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Guest Romualdo

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I think it is necessary to perform Perls stain to confirm the nature of the pigment present in the dermis. I am not so convinced but If it turns out to be hemosiderin, then the possibilities of pigmented purpuric dermatosis or mycosis fungoides developing from a pigmented purpuric dermatosis must be considered (some atypical lymphocytes with large cerebriform nuclei are seen in the epidermis and coarse collagen bundles are apparently present in the dermis). If there is no hemosiderin then I think the diagnosis will be mycosis fungoides. Immunostains and clinicopathological correlation are necessary. MF-like drug eruptions may look very similar.

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Robledo F. Rocha

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A superficial vacuolar lymphocytic infiltrate with epidermal hyperplasia, mild spongiosis, mound of parakeratosis, and extravasated erythrocytes in the papillary dermis.
My first hypothesis was pityriasis rosea, but it´s hard to sustain this after a case history of an isolated lesion on thigh, unless an inverted herald patch is taken into account.
I interpret the brown pigment as melanin incontinence, so pigmented purpuric dermatitis is not my choice.
Exocytosis of large lymphocytes strikes me about the possibility of mycosis fungoides (so-called small-plaque parapsoriasis), but in this case I would expect those large lymphocytes surrounded by a clear halo and aligned along the basal layer of the epidermis.
By elimination, I favor erythema annulare centrifugum.

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Sasi Attili

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Quite tough without knowing the history, but would plump for PPD with the differential of CTCl based on the slightly atypical lymphocytes

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Guest Jim Davie MD

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I will toss in with the lichenoid pigmented purpura group on this one. Subacute eczematous dermatitis would be another consideration. Clinical is key.
MF cannot be excluded as it can masquerade as just about any inflammatory dermatosis, but I agree with Robledo that the junction shows too little involvement by lymphocytes to put MF on the top of the differential Dx list.
[size=4] A spongiotic psoriasiform dermatitis with lichenoid infiltrate, lymphocytic and rare non-specific RBC extravasation and exocytosis, with focal parakeratosis. There is equivocal and non-specific rare satellite necrosis. I think there is mixed hemosiderin and melanin in the dermis. [/size][size=4]The superimposed effects of chronic irritation (LSC/prurigo) complicates the interpretation, with addition of non-specific periretal and dermal 'wiry fibrosis' that would hint at consideration of MF (although more impressive fibrosis can be seen in some prurigo cases). [/size]

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Mycosis fungoides. Methinks there's disproportionate epidermotropism.

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Dr. Hafeez Diwan

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I called this mycosis fungoides. There was marked CD4 predominance. Clinically, this was MF as well.

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