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Case Number : Case 1839 - 15 June - Dr Arti Bakshi Posted By: Guest

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Clinical History: 71/F, widespread polymorphic rash, initially treated as scabies but no response.

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Admin_Dermpath

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Get your brain cells working by tackling Dr Arti Bakshi's spot case.

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dermpath1

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You may wish to call it prurigo nodularis complicating scabies or nodular scabies causing lymphocytoma cutis.

Care should taken not to confuse reactive large CD30 positive cells with other cutaneous disorders with neoplastic CD30 positive cells..

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Raul Perret

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I was considering CD30+ lymphoproliferative disease vs cutaneous compromise of anaplastic T cell lymphoma. Is there history of previous lymphoma? Some cells look like hodgkin's cells.

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Anil Patki

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Nodular scabies or persistent pruritic nodule after treatment of scabies. Does not respond to antiscabetics, requires topical or intralesional corticosteroids. Resembles lymphoma.

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Raul Perret

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Yes, probably you guys are right I was not aware of this subtype of scabies. I have just read it on Weedon's book, thank you. CPC seems to be very important as even Weedon states in the last edition of his book that he misdiagnosed a case of Nodular scabies as Lymhpomatoid papulosis

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vincenzo polizzi

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The dermal lymphoid infiltrate looks secundary or less important compared to epidermal reaction ( I should see something deeper and more extensive in dermis for thinking to L.P. ). So agree with colleagues.  Persistent pruritic nodule after treatment of Scabies is a good diagnosis. 

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Raul Perret

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17 hours ago, vincenzo polizzi said:

The dermal lymphoid infiltrate looks secundary or less important compared to epidermal reaction ( I should see something deeper and more extensive in dermis for thinking to L.P. ). So agree with colleagues.  Persistent pruritic nodule after treatment of Scabies is a good diagnosis. 

Thanks for the tip Vincenzo

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vincenzo polizzi

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You are welcome Raul. Thank you for your many many suggestions. 

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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Agree with you.

Nodular scabies, persistent insect bite reaction with CD30 positive cells. 

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Arti Bakshi

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Interesting discussion! Clearly the case needs more clinical history so here goes....the diagnosis of scabies was the initial impression of a GP and patient was put on scabies treatment. However none of her lesions responded and she was then seen by the dermatologist, who did not think it was scabies at all! He took a detailed drug history and there was a possibility that the rash had started with the initiation of a new drug.  That was when this bx was done and the histology was reported as 'consistent with drug induced CD30 + lymphoproliferation'. The suspected drug was stopped but there was no response. In the meantime, patient developed a nodule (3 cm in size) on her elbow, which was biopsied and showed a diffuse infiltrate composed of  sheets of CD30+ pleomorphic cells (much denser that seen in these images from the bx of the rash). A clonality testing revealed the same clone in the background papular rash and the tumour nodule. Any thoughts on the diagnosis now?

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Pablo Gonzalvo

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Lymphomatoid papulosis with pseudocarcinomatous hyperplasia?

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Raul Perret

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Cutaneous (if clinically consistent) Anaplastic cd30+ large cell lymphoma evolving from lymphomatoid papulosis (would be the diagnosis of the bx you describe). This is then consistent with LyP 

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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So it is LyP

I have read in the cutaneous lymphoma book of Lorenzo Cerroni that large tumorous nodules can develop in the context of LyP. 

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vincenzo polizzi

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Okay. GREAT CASE. But I was just wondering if this could be an odd case of cutaneous Hodgkin, for example a methotrexate induced HD (PAX5? CD15?)...

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Raul Perret

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31 minutes ago, vincenzo polizzi said:

Okay. GREAT CASE. But I was just wondering if this could be an odd case of cutaneous Hodgkin, for example a methotrexate induced HD (PAX5? CD15?)...

The majority of cases of cutaneous Hodgkin lymphoma are seen in patients with advanced systemic disease. That is why I think it is important asking about the clinical history of the patient

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Arti Bakshi

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I went for Lymphomatoid Papulosis for the background rash and regarded the tumour nodule as primary cutaneous ALCL. As we know, there is a known association between LyP and other cutaneous lymphomas including MF (I had posted a case of this before https://dermpathpro.com/spot-diagnosis-1/2016-spot-diagnoses/august-2016/case-1593-03-august-r1667/ ) and p-ALCL. The 2 lesions often share a common clone.

With regards to Mona's suggestion of the 2nd lesion also representing LyP (probably type C), this was certainly my initial thought when I saw the bx and was not aware of the size of the lesion. But it is unusual for LyP lesions to be more than 1 cm in size (except the angioinvasive variant). Ofcourse it is the course of the disease which is critical in the distinction as one expects self resolution and a waxing-waning course in LyP. However, its worth remembering that it can take weeks to months for lesions of LyP to resolve, hence the history of  'self resolving' lesions is not  always forthcoming from the clinicians, if patient is seen early enough. In this case, the lesions of LyP did eventually resolve after a couple of months, however lesions flared up again for which she is on phototherapy now (and well controlled). The tumour nodule showed no sign of regression and was treated with radiotherapy (as for primary cutaneous ALCL) and has now disappeared.

Thanks for all your comments and educative discussion!

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Arti Bakshi

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@Vincenzo, the patient had a CT scan and did not have any significant lymphadenopathy. She also does not have have any history of Hodgkins.

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vincenzo polizzi

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Okay Arti. Very nice case.  Thank you very much for your comments. 

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