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Case Number : Case 2887 - 30 July 2021 Posted By: Dr. Richard Carr

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M45. Shoulder, ?melanoma


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A difficult regressed melanocytic lesion...probably melanoma. It’s asymmetric. 

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Eman El-Nabarawy

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Are the figures 7th and 8th of the same case? What r the labeling of the immunos?

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Dr. Richard Carr

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I wanted you to guess the IHC but the left two are p16 and the right two are melanA. Yes all images are the same case but agree that's important to check!

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Images 7th and 8th and IHC were posted later but with only one comment at that point it sort of defeats the idea a little.

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Sorry. I’m late. Fastweb has been out of order for two days in my town. 
how about a melanoma in situ overimposed in a BCC? Prognostically not too much dangerous? 

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Zuli Baharom

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Superficial BCC with and regressed melanocytic lesion.

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Eman El-Nabarawy

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Superficial BCC colonised by melanocytes(denderitic) adjacent to melanoma in regression..

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Dr. Richard Carr

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We concluded a pigmented BCC with regression could easily and more likely account for the pattern of superficial tumoural melanosis rather than a BCC and a regressed superficial melanoma. This would be Occam's razor solution i.e. keep it simple: 

Definition of Occam's razor

 

: a scientific and philosophical rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Forgot to say thank you to Dr Domenico Mesiano for sharing this case. 

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Eman El-Nabarawy

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Gorgeous..And logic.. Thank u for this teaching case..

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