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Case Number : Case 1018 - 19th May Posted By: Guest

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The patient is a 67 year old white man with a shave biopsy of a jet black, firm nodule without a keratotic component, present for over one year, taken from the area behind the right ear.

Case posted by Dr. Mark Hurt.
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Eman El-Nabarawy

Eman El-Nabarawy 69

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Baso-squamous melanocytic tumor.

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim 508

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I think this is pigmented BCC colonized with dendritic melanocytes. I think in basomelanocytic tumor or in squamomelanocytic tumor, there is collision of BCC or SCC with a melanoma. I do not think we have melanoma cells here, we just have dendritic melanocytes colonizing a basaloid cell tumor with peripheral palisading and peritumoral clefting. Melanophages are also abundant in the stroma.

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Robledo F. Rocha

Robledo F. Rocha 336

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[font="Arial, sans-serif"][size=4][color="#000000"]Basal cell carcinoma colonized by n[/color][color="#000000"]umerous [/color][color="#000000"]non-neoplastic [/color][color="#000000"]dendritic melanocytes scattered throughout the [/color][color="#000000"]tumor lobules[/color][color="#000000"].[/color][/size][/font]

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Guest Romualdo

Guest Romualdo

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Agree: pigmented basal cell carcinoma colonized by dendritic melanocytes.

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Guest Jim Davie MD

Guest Jim Davie MD

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Agree: pigmented nodular BCC.
Low mitotic activity, peripheral palisading, retraction artefact, trabeculated nodular architecture. Dendritic melanocytes throughout, suggestive of an indolent BCC vs. trichoblastoma.
CK5/6 is positive in both SCC and BCC. BerEP4 is weak diffuse positive, and there is evidence of squamous differentiation focally (which may show up with EMA).

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SADAT
BCC ( pigmented nodular type). i agree with comment for Dr Mona and Dr Davie

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