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Case Number : Case 2459 - 5 December 2019 Posted By: Saleem Taibjee

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“This is a routine case from last week: 75F scalp, the GP suspected sebaceous cyst”
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Krishnakumar subramanian

Krishnakumar subramanian 0

Posted

dermal round tumor cells and also intraepithelial spread

Merkel cell carcinoma

does not look like sebaceous gland carcinoma

IHC needed sir

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim 508

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MCC is my first thought vs. metastasis (small cell carcinoma of the lung)

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Saleem Taibjee

Saleem Taibjee 0

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Well done guys. Yes this is probably metastatic small cell carcinoma. The tumour is positive for neuroendocrine markers (CD56, chromogranin and synaptophysin), negative for CK20, and strongly positive for CK7 and TTF1 (the latter is shown below).

Of course, the patient requires imaging.

The caveat is that there are examples of CK20 negative, TTF-1 positive, Merkel cell carcinoma, in the literature. Below are links to a couple of pertinent articles.

BW Saleem

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27322785

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30067951

53232_10.0x TTF1.jpg

 

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