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Case Number : Case 1172 - 19th December Posted By: Guest

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F75. Left upper arm.

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SCC. Despite the belief that perineural invasion does not equate malignancy, most, if not all, of the pathologists I have worked under will call this an SCC.

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Guest Giovanni Falconieri

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KA vs hyperkeratotic SCC, favor the latter due to the deep front of invasion (i.e. beyond the eccrine gland coils) and the growth pattern undermining the adjacent epidermis (? cuniculate carcinoma)

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Sasi Attili

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Favour KA, though I never make a diagnosis of KA without CPC, particularly given the age of the patient!

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Robledo F. Rocha

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I'd prefer to call it squamous cell carcinoma. Neoplastic tongues have infiltrative pattern of growth and they extend from the base below the level of the eccrine gland coils.

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Guest Tiberiu Tebeica

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I would call this well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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This feels a little bit like deja vu (still happy to provide my review on follicular SCC to anyone who wants it [email="richard.carr@swft.nhs.uk"]richard.carr@swft.nhs.uk[/email]). I did not see any features that really favoured SCC over KA histologically and even without a clinical history the appearances strongly support KA. I would draw your attention to the nice arciform lower border around the level of the sweat gland coils but no deeper (excluding the perineural invasion), strikingly infiltrative / proliferative borders with elastic entrapment but fairly abrupt central full maturation [u][b]in all areas[/b][/u] and a clue that is exceedingly helpful in the last image of elastic entrapped in fully mature squamous epithelium (to me indicating prior remarkable proliferation around the connective tissue elements without destruction and subsequent maturation). Note the absence of the more typical rounded pushing borders with peripheral palisading of well differentiated follicular SCC, and asbence of spontaneous acantholysis or intra-epithelial pools of follicular mucin. Poorly differentiated fSCC, although frequently crateriform with superficial well differentiated areas that can be treacherous the deeper portion tends to be more vertical going straight down through subcutis with asymmetry and solid areas that run through the tissue with elastic entrapment occasionally [u][b]but lacks full maturation in all areas[/b][/u]. In my experience neither well or poorly differentiated subtypes of fSCC has elastic entrapment in the fully matured central areas although you might occasionally see a simmulant of that in some types of follicular pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia with perforation of elastic and collagen. Because of the absence of history I have used the term "in keeping with" but could easily in this case exchanged "with typical histological features of". The case should be discussed in multi-disciplinary team meeting but I think a wait and watch could be adopted in this instance according to literature available perineural invasion in otherwise typical KA does not carry any untoward clinical implication.
My report as follows:
Well differentiated squamoproliferative lesion in keeping with [u][b]keratoacanthoma[/b][/u].
Depth: 4 mm.
Radial margin: 2 mm.
Deep margin: 1 mm.
Clark level: 4.
Widespread perineural invasion present.
No vascular invasion.
MDM discussion advised.

[b]Reference[/b]
Godbolt AM, Sullivan JJ, Weedon D. Keratoacanthoma with perineural invasion: a report of 40 cases. Australas J Dermatol. 2001 Aug;42(3):168-71.

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