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Case Number : Case 1665 - 11 November - Dr Richard Carr Posted By: Guest

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Clinical Details: Pimple on ear 1 year. Now growing after local trauma. ?SCC
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Case Posted by Dr Richard Carr


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Admin_Dermpath

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Richard's cases always take us up a notch or two, really top class images.

Cheers, Geoff - DermpathPRO Projects

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Guest Hazem Hamed

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Reactive squamous proliferation (pseudocarcinomatous hyperplasia in association with gouty tophi).

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Guest Hazem Hamed

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Case Report- Pseudocarcinomatous hyperplasia involving the ear from gout: a diagnostic pitfall. JCP 2013

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Raul Perret

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Agree, crystal spaces better seen in third picture. I guess that other differential to consider in low power is chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis but higher power clears the picture.

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vincenzo polizzi

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My first impression was of a broken off epidermal cyst, but I think it's a misleading image...There is a pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia around degenerate collagen with slit like spaces and fibrin : what make me favor a CHONDRODERMATITIS NODULARIS HELICIS.

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Robledo F. Rocha

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I was looking for granulomatous reaction with macrophages and multinucleated foreign body giant cells that typically surrounds the urate crystals deposits. Assuming that granulomatous reaction can be found in the deepest part of the first image, this my be gout. I have never seen pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia of the epidermis related with gout tophus.

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Admin_Dermpath

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Igor et al, you will like the images that I have just uploaded to add to this case.

Cheers, Geoff

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Wow!! Amazing!!! The brown color in H&E and the polirized light are great!

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vincenzo polizzi

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Well done Hazem and Raul!!! Never seen a similar case. Very nice and didactically useful. 

I should have perceived the cristal spaces, as Raul did!!! 

 

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Yes well done Hazem et al and thanks for the reference too.  I've seen a few cases on the ear now.  The uric acid crystals usually dissolve in processing as they are water soluble.  The second two images were from a new lesion on the opposite year and luckily the crystals were evident.  I've now diagnosed tophi on the ear several times and i'm pretty sure another also had pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia. 

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