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Case Number : Case 887 - 12th November Posted By: Guest

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The patient is a 67 year old man with a history of malignant melanoma. The patient now has an excision taken from the left, upper aspect of the chest.

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Guest Romualdo

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The nuclei on the left side of figure # 2 (lesion) are slightly enlarged in relation to the nuclei on the the right side (normal epidermis). I think this is large cell acanthoma.

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Robledo F. Rocha

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A well demarcated thickening of the epidermis due to proliferation of enlarged keratinocytes without nuclear atypia. There's also hyperpigmentation of the basal layer. I go with large cell acanthoma.

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Guest Rodrigo Restrepo

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[color=#1C2837][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif][size=4]Large cell acanthoma[/size][/font][/color]

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Guest Jim Davie MD

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Very interesting case. Without stains, I would hesitate to call it Bowen's disease. However, I don't think a large cell acanthoma should spare the basal layer as seen here. (See earlier LCA: [url="https://dermpathpro.com/spot-diagnosis-1/_/2013-spot-diagnoses/september-2013/case-838-3rd-september-r865"]case[/url]). I think it's a clonal SK, with differential less favoring Bowen's disease. CK10 / Bcl2 may be helpful.[list]
[*]Low grade atypia with dyskeratosis, mild pleomorphism/enlargement. The vescicular nuclear artefact obscures the presence of slightly enlarged and multiple nucleoli within the enlarged suprabasal keratinocyte population.
[*]The Ki-67 shows basal sparing and full-thickness increase in staining, with absence of any maturation. Large cell acanthomas and melanoacanthomas should have a low Ki67 index, with low-level distribution.
[*]Pagetoid melanocytes are low level, and likely incidental to disruptive effects.
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pigmented Bowen's vs melanoma in situ ( Melan A shqowed some pagetoid spread of melanocystes)
I don't see nests to call it metastatic intraepidermal melanoma

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Is there a history of topical treatment which may have induced epidermal proliferation?

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Robledo F. Rocha

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Immunohistochemistry was crucial to the correct diagnosis. In HE pictures alone, I didn't suspect all that cellular proliferation in the full-thickness of the epidermis as highlighted by Ki-67.
Thanks, Dr. Hurt, to share this interesting case.

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Sasi Attili

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I have trouble with the diagnosis Bowens just on the basis of Ki67. Is there enough scientific evidence to say that high Ki67 activity is 100% specific for malignancy? Would be interested to know.

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Guest Jim Davie MD

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[quote name='Sasi Attili' timestamp='1384296889']
I have trouble with the diagnosis Bowens just on the basis of Ki67. Is there enough scientific evidence to say that high Ki67 activity is 100% specific for malignancy? Would be interested to know.
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I agree Ki67 is useful, but not sufficient in itself for malignancy.

A recent JCP article [ [url="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0560.2011.01825.x/abstract"]ABSTRACT link[/url]] studied histologic and immunohistochemical markers to help reliably distinguish clonal SK and Bowen's. Of the IPEX markers tested -- Ki-67, bcl-2, cytokeratin 7 and cytokeratin 10 -- they suggested CK10 and Bcl-2 as most useful. (Ki67 didn't make the cut).

[size=4][b][color=#000000]Cytokeratin 10-negative nested pattern enables sure distinction of clonal se[/color][/b][color=#000000][b]borrheic keratosis from pagetoid Bowen's disease. [/b][/color][/size][color=#000000]Böer-Auer, A., Jones, M. and Lyasnichaya, O. V. [/color]
[size=4][color=#000000]Journal of Cutaneous Pathology, 39: 225–233. (2012) [/color][/size]

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Dr. Richard Carr

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There is a saying don't dismiss your first impression. My first thought was pigmented subtle Bowen's but I was not brave enough to contradict all those (seemingly good) responses - I had not considered large cell acanthoma but it seemed reasonable. The photos are a little blue overall and I assumed this was a colour balance issue! Showing a high mitotic figure would have been helpful though.

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