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Case Number : Case 1800 - 21 April - Dr Richard A Carr Posted By: Guest

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Clinical History: M60. Lesion upper arm ?BCC. Two other confirmed BCC excised at same time.

Case Posted by Dr Richard A Carr


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vincenzo polizzi

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What about a pseudoepitheliomatous induction in arthropod bite reaction?...

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Raul Perret

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I thought of pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia with dermal granulomatous inflammation so would like to discard first skin infections fungus/mycobacteria. A PAS and ZN could help

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vincenzo polizzi

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...In a patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia?

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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There could be a background of CLL that explains the very dense lymphoid reaction here, as the last image shows some lymphoid atypia, to be verified by CD20,5, 43 and clinical correlation. The nature of the infiltrative epithelial growth to me is not comforting with PEH, especially with the presence of mucin (epithelial?). The granulomatous reaction is pissibly induced by keratin. I am worried about a fSCC (low grade) in a patient with CLL. I might be off track. 

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Raul Perret

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I think that for LLC there is too much mixed inflammatory reaction (eosinophils, plasma cells). On the other hand the process seems multifocal and mainly centered on hair follicles, the former aspect is against fSCC. If PAS and ZN are negative then I would consider exaggerated arthropod bite reaction as Vincenzo suggested

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Arti Bakshi

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I am more with Mona on this...worried about a SCC (invasive follicular) 

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Neil Catterall

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The lymphocytic infiltrate is centered on the epithelial proliferation - not usual infiltrate for arthropod assault. I agree with Arti - SCC (invasive follicular)

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Nitin Khirwadkar

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More for a follicular SCC. Would like to r/o CLL as well.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Good discussion and I think a difficult case. I reported it as a follicular squamous cell carcinoma, infiltrative, inflammatory variant, mild cellular atypia only. p53 was wild type and p16 only slightly up-graded (++20%). EMA diffusely positive, BerEP4-ve.

I did not originally think of CLL to be honest - I did however when looking at the image "blind" last week!  Maybe should have mentioned in my report "given the prominent lymphocytic infiltrate, any history of CLL."  Having said that I suspect it's just an inflammatory carcinoma (looks quite epitheliotropic i.e. T-cell pattern).

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