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Case Number : Case 2915 - 08 September 2021 Posted By: Uma Sundram

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65 year old male with long standing lesions on the lower legs.


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Richard Logan

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This looks like an old, dried-out slide.  There are lots of fissures in the dermis which I suspect are artefactual, and some tinctural changes in the connective tissue which may also be due to aging of the slide.  The third image shows a cluster of atypical, hyperchromatic cells, possibly endothelial.  Is this angiosarcoma, possibly Kaposi's?

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Difficult. The second img shows microthrombosis.  The atypical cells could be pc. ?? IgM-related( Waldenstrom) DIC. 

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The last photo shows plasma cells. Features in the background dermis are difficult to tell but I was thinking amyloidosis associated with plasma cell dyscrasia such as multiple myeloma. Vincenzo has a great point this can be Waldenstrom. May we have some stains please (PAS, congo red, kappa and lambda)?

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14 hours ago, John Zhang said:

The last photo shows plasma cells. Features in the background dermis are difficult to tell but I was thinking amyloidosis associated with plasma cell dyscrasia such as multiple myeloma. Vincenzo has a great point this can be Waldenstrom. May we have some stains please (PAS, congo red, kappa and lambda)?

Oh yes. What seems to me microthrombs could be amyloid!!!

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Uma Sundram

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Nodular amyloidosis. Congo red is positive and the plasma cells are kappa light chain restricted. 

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