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Case Number : Case 1625 - 16 September Posted By: Guest

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M80. Cheek. ?AK, ?SEBK

Case Posted by Dr Richard Carr


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vincenzo polizzi

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Difficult case for me. I was thinking of an atypical irritated seborrheic keratosis, but atypia seems over the hyper plastic reactive range and there are much features typical of infundibular and trichilemmal differentiation. The border with non-atypical epidermis is sharp, remarking clonal nature of atypical one...so I favour Follicular SCC with trichilemmal and infundibular differentiation.

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Arti Bakshi

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Agree completely with Vicenzo's comment. The same differentials came to my mind ie inverted follicular keratosis and follicular SCC. There is intraepithelial mucin, which can be seen in both.

I too would favour Follicular SCC (insitu) due to the degree of cytological atypia and mitoses in figs 6 and 7.

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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Me too, was working my mind between IFK and Follicular SCC. Favour follicular SCC.

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Nitin Khirwadkar

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Agree with differentials. Favour follicular SCC.

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Raul Perret

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Agree with the comments of my colleagues. SCC follicular, Did you consider it in situ Richard?

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Guest Arash Daryakarr

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me too agree with colleagues. there is an endophytic growth of squamous neoplasm with sharp borders with adjacent epidermis bearing atypias ,mitoses and mucin deposition.

follicular in situ SCC seems a good idea.

what is acidophilic material surrounded by eosinophils in 7th image?something important?

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Thanks for excellent discussion. I have arranged for some IHC to get posted (soon hopefully).

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Well done Vincenzo.  You perfectly summarised the case as a differential between follicular SCC v's inverted follicular keratosis / irritated seborrheic keratosis. Thanks for reminding me of Case 1032 which also discusses the differential in depth.  This case was indeed reported as follicular SCC with pushing only borders and for practical purposes regarded as in situ (resembling IFK but with atypia too much for a benign lesion - supported by a null p53 - done retrospectively).  CD34 was also negative as expected. The acidophilic material in image 7 is just cross-cutting of the large "glassy" tricholemmal keratinocytes.  Eosinophils, neutrophils etc. can be attracted to squamous lesions such as this (including keratoacanthoma).

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