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Case Number : Case 1732 - 17 January - Dr Uma Sundram Posted By: Guest

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Clinical History: 65 year old woman with ‘large’ lesion on back.

Case Posted by Dr Uma Sundram


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Admin_Dermpath

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Today's Daily Spot Diagnosis Case is a biggy or should we now say bigly challenge for you all.

 

Cheers, Geoff Cross - DermpathPRO Projects

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vincenzo polizzi

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Completely agree with Geoff diagnosis of biggy/bigly challenge.

Dissecting pattern of endothelial cell growth, infiltrating superficial and deep dermis ( and subcutaneous tissue probably ), absent or very mild atypia with some sporadic piling up, no hemosiderin deposits...Last in  the second  picture there is a cellular crowding and there you can see two mitosis...What is it? A very early ( and very low grade ) angiosarcoma? A hobnail hemangioma without deep hemorragic component?

In real life I would claim an incisional biopsy, since the lesion is large!

Here i can just favor an angiosarcoma.

 

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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Same concern of angiosarcoma and as Vincenzo said, I would love to see an incisional biopsy!

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Nitin Khirwadkar

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Yes, infiltrative vascular tumour with crowding, endothelial atypia, angiosarcoma.

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Raul Perret

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My impression was that this neoplasm looks relatively organized and lacks atypia, it bothered me the clinical description of (large) so its hard to rule out an angiosarcoma as everyone remarked. Nevertheless, I would favour a microvenular hemangioma only based on these images (this tumor can show some adnexal infiltration as in this case) would perform smooth muscle actin (to highlight pericytes), cd31, d2-40 and/or WT-1 as well as hhv-8 in this case. In real life also discuss with treating physician and asking for patients pictures

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Arti Bakshi

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Hmm....difficult! Agree that a low grade angiosarcoma is first thought, but odd site!

The only other diffrential that come to mind is a microvenular haemangioma, which can show an infiltrative pattern of irregular branching small vessels. Involvement of arrector pili muscle is typical (?image 3)

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Arti Bakshi

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Ha! Raul beat me to it!...but glad that we are on similar track!!

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Raul Perret

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21 minutes ago, arti bakshi said:

Ha! Raul beat me to it!...but glad that we are on similar track!!

Me too, i thought I was the only one thinking of microv hemangioma!

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Dr. Richard Carr

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I definitely was not thinking of a microvenular haemangioma (but easily ruled in/out with SMA). Looks highly irregular and infiltrative (agree minimal atypia).  I was thinking it might be a breast lesion (i.e. post-irradiation angiosarcoma / AVL) prior to seeing it was from the back. I favour angiosarcoma but agree with the cautious comments above - like to see the clinical images +/- larger biopsy before rendering a death sentance!

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My first thought would be Kaposi´s sarcoma, but well differentiated angiosarcoma also comes to mind. HHV-8 immunostain is necessary (as well as clinical history).

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Robledo F. Rocha

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Seeing the images before read the clinical history, I interpreted those thin-walled vascular channels dissecting through collagen bundles and invading arrector pili muscles as microvenular hemangioma. However, after read the clinical history of a large lesion (if the adjective large between quotation marks really means large), I favor angiosarcoma.

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Uma Sundram

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This is a truly difficult case and I am grateful for all of your instructive comments. The lesion is over two centimeters in size and the patient has no other lesions; specifically, there is no prior history of radiation therapy and the patient is HIV negative.  HHV8, SMA and podoplanin are all negative within the lesional cells; CD34 is positive. We too were concerned about a well differentiated angiosarcoma, given the size of the lesion, and have asked for an incisional biopsy to render a more definitive diagnosis. The case is relatively new and I will give all of you follow up if/when I receive it.

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