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Case Number : Case 2027 - 11 March 2018 Posted By: Uma Sundram

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55 year old woman with long standing lesion on back.


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Anil Patki

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Islands of squamoid cells with variable clear cell change set in a hyalinized stroma. Eosinophilic droplets of basement membrane material are seen in tumour islands and stroma. This seems to me a desmoplastic trichilemmoma. CD 34 stain for confirmation.

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urmila1

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amyloid like hyaline material, would do stains for that. otherwise thinking of hidradenoma

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Raul Perret

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Agree with hidradenoma, im worried about infiltrating borders, I would be cautious.

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agree with at least clear cell hidradenoma. But i also worried  about  the infiltrative pattern . Could be a more ominous process.

The tumor definitely shows some morphologic  features reminiscent of a hyalinizing clear cell carcinoma of salivary glands, particularly in the abscence of  definitive duct formation.ThAt salivary gland tumor has a very specific rearrangement EWRS1-ATF1. Sometimes I wonder if we do FISH studies on these skin tumors, how many would have that gene fusion?

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Uma Sundram

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I was pretty cautious too. The lesion also had centralized necrosis. As hidradenocarcinomas can be very bland, I asked for a second opinion. We both thought of the same thing: low grade hidradenocarcinoma. The tip off is the presence of infiltrating small islands and centralized comedo-style necrosis (seen in the second image). A desmoplastic response was also present, unusual for a straight forward hidradenoma. Congo Red negative. Good question about FISH studies! Would be very interesting to find out.

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Nodular hidradenoma with some areas containing clear cells

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vincenzo polizzi

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Sincerely I was thinking of a hidradenoma...but Uma’s comments are stringent. 

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I agree with hidradenocarcinoma Infiltrative lesion with necrosis !

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