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Case Number : Case 2362 - 10 July 2019 Posted By: Iskander H. Chaudhry

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73 M Left forearm biopsy (excision) Pigmented
lesion - recent change

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Desmoplastic Melanoma. Is pic8 and last pic S100 instead MelanA?

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Victor Delgado

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Desmoplastic melanoma is a good thought, however I would like to include a few differentials diagnosis as melanocytic nevus with perineural differentiation and desmoplastic melanocytic nevus.   This one is a small lesion, a little bit asymetrical but well circunscribed, epithelioid and spindle - dendritic melanocytes, maduration at the deep portion and some kind of mucinous material intermigled. IHC is similar for S100, Melan A and HMB45, so I'll add P16, EMA and Glut1. Nice case, thanks for sharing.

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5 hours ago, vincenzo said:

Desmoplastic Melanoma. Is pic8 and last pic S100 instead MelanA?

Agree. There´s an inequivocal "in situ" melanoma and the desmoplastic dermal component must be of a invasive desmoplastic melanoma, pure type.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Occam's razor suggest MIS and partly desmoplastic invasive melanoma (would be nice to see S100).

I was a little confused by labels as S100 is nuclear (and cytoplasmic) and MelanA is cytoplasm only. Initially I thought there may be focal weak nuclear here but on balance I think these all show just cytoplasmic so probably labelled correctly and commensurate with partly desmoplastic MM.

Don't forget MelanA diffuse strong / S100 weak/negative is highly characteristic of the "blue" group (although not quite 100% specific not far off).

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Admin_Dermpath

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Dear all thank you. So all the images are of Melan A. It was difficult case and consensus was on the junctional component representing a melanoma in situ and the dermal component at least atypical with some suggestions of desmoplastic melanoma. The clinicians treated it as such (the latter)! Best wishes Iskander

 

 

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