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Case Number : Case 2327 - 17 May 2019 Posted By: Dr. Richard Carr

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M85. Lower leg. Keratotic nodule. r/o SCC

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Krishnakumar subramanian

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keratoacanthoma

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vincenzo

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Difficult...a verrucous ( ptychotropica ) porokeratosis?

 

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John Zhang

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Ki67 is low. P16 is negative. p53 is neither null or strong positive - the staining patter looks benign, maybe a wart. But I am not sure that it is not a squamous cell carcinoma given the patient's advanced age. I would send for HPV typing. If positive, I am okay reporting as a wart. In which the dermatologist will probably freeze it to death, which will probably kill it even if it were SCC since most of the lesion is out. Otherwise I want to call it SCC. Waiting for the real answer...

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Meenakshi Batrani

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Verruca- Myrmecia type

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The immunostaining is fun to look at, but from practical standpoint, probably I would just call it a SCC and recommend additional treatment as John said.

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Krishnakumar subramanian

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bowenoid wart due to actinic induced and may be caused by non oncogenic HPV strain

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dermpath1

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Take it Richard , It is just warty dyskeratoma.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Great discussion. Remember not all cases have an answer! If one wanted to to give a descriptive label it is indeed a "warty dyskeratoma" (but lacks the acantholytic and basal budding of that already recognised entity). My report as follows:

Well differentiated squamoproliferative lesion with endophytic pushing borders.  The lesion lacks frank dysplasia, but shows rather striking dyskeratosis.  I cannot render a definitive diagnosis.  Complete excision may be advisable if the lesion were to recur.

Personal notes: Ki67 basal, p53 & p16 wild. I guess you could label this lesion descriptively as "benign verrucous/warty acanthoma with prominent dyskeratosis"

It's sometimes nice to show these everyday problems and lesions that have not read all the pages of the textbook!

I agree this may be a non-high risk HPV lesion. It probably falls into the spectrum of lesions called "benign verrucous keratosis" seen in patients who are on BRAFi and I use a similar term for sporadic lesions. 

See Case 1746: 

Myrmecia wart is somewhat different

See case 1242:

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Krishnakumar subramanian

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thanks a lot sir useful learning points

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