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Case Number : Case 1779 - 23 March - Dr Arti Bakshi Posted By: Guest

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Clinical History: 22 Female, excision of pigmented lesion.

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vincenzo polizzi

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Difficult!!!

My first thought is Melanoma, balloon cell type. I think this is a primary, dermal based lesion, but xanthomatous changes like these are usually seen in metastatic cases. 

DD with a pigmented variant of JXG. Favour melanoma because in pic1/2 you can see some questionable junctional nest..and because of the nested growth pattern.

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Raul Perret

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Hard case indeed, difficult to asses only by pictures. For me this is a melanocytic lesion of uncertain malignant potential, favor malignant. The balloon and multinucleated cells are actually reassuring to me and they have banal nuclear features. The problem is the relative asymmetry, crowding, heavy irregular pigmentation, isolated cells with fine dusty cytoplasmic melanin (pic7), prominent lymphocytic infiltrate between neoplastic cells and at the edges, and as Vincenzo remarked it is difficult to assure a component at the junctional level but it also caught my eyes. I dont know if there is also a mitotic figure out of focus in pic9? I would do some immunos and I think even BAP-1

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Mariantonieta Tirado

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Agree difficult, however I favor benign (symmetric, sharply demarcated, in pictures no deep mitoses,didn't see in the epidermis, scatter or irregular distribution of melanocytes ). There are balloon cell changes, though you can see them in benign and malignant lesions. Some cells look spitzoid. My differentials would be combined compound nevus with a cellular blue component or atypical spitz lesion. Melanoma not outruled. Would do MelA, HMB45, p16. Sometimes we do BRAF with ALK  and certainly show it to my colleagues 

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Looks like an "odd" combined or "clonal" naevus to me. The clone being slightly epithelioid/xanthoma-like. Probably carries a translocation or fusion or deletion (including BAP) etc. While admitting the difficulty of labelling and slight uncertainty I'd favour a likely benign behaviour. Watch and wait as it fully excised.

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vincenzo polizzi

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May be I'm wrong, as often happens in difficult and questionable cases like this. However I'd favour a "melanoma-congruent treatment" in this case, because the growth pattern is confluent, nodule-expansive with pushing margins in deep dermis. The right half looks like a proliferative nodule in a congenital nevus, but it seems we are far away from this condition. 

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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Thinking of combined nevus with balloon cell change... 

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Robledo F. Rocha

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This nevus does not give me real cause for concern since it looks benign and it was entirely excised. The problem for me is how to name it! Maybe combined Wiesner nevus and blue nevus with balloon-cell change.

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Arti Bakshi

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Agree a difficult one to categorise! I and Nitin both looked at this case and went for benign based on the circumscription, symmetry, lack of a worrying junctional component and scant mitoses. (there was only one convincing one pictured in image 9). The problem was the nomenclature. Massi and LeBoit's textbook mentions a polypoid exophytic variant of DPN, which often lacks the deep extension and plexiform pattern typical of usual DPN, but shows the typical cytological composition of DPN (which I thought this case had) The other d/d was ofcourse, a Combined naevus, as many of you have mentioned. The BAP1 immunostain was retained.

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Arti Bakshi

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I attach the summary of my report:

''This is a rather challenging melanocytic lesion to accurately categorise. Although cells are epithelioid I do  not think the lesion belongs to the Spitz group of tumours. Instead, the cytological composition of the cells with the admixed macrophages is rather suggestive of of a deep penetrating 
naevus. Deep penetrating naevi sometimes may not show the typical deep wedge shaped architecture and can be polypoid  and superficial in nature. This would explain the apparent lack of maturation and the occasional deep mitotic figures which are well within the spectrum of this group of  lesions. An alternative would be to classify this as a  subtype of a combined naevus (common acquired and blue     
naevus). A BAPOMA was certainly a good thought but the retention of BAP1 nuclear staining excludes this  possibility. Regardless of the exact nomenclature, I do not think there are sufficient features to be worried about malignancy. The lesion is well excised.''

Many thanks to Dr Latifaj for sharing this case with me.

 

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Guillermo García

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It´s possible a balloon cell blue nevus?
 

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