Dermatofibroma is a clonal proliferative disease.

abstract：:Discrete junctional cellular aggregates ("nests"), partially staining with melanocytic markers, are described in lichenoid tissue reaction, mainly from chronically sun-exposed skin. The concomitant epidermal flattening and papillary dermal fibrosis with melanophages, may raise the differential diagnosis to that of a r...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Ferrara G,Bradamante M,Broglia I,Petrillo G,Stefanato CM

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An electron microscopic study was made of a patient with erythema elevatum diutinum, a rare variant of cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis. Biopsies were obtained from early evolving and late fibroproliferative lesions. Early lesions showed vasculitis and a massive dermal infiltrate composed mainly of neutrophils, h...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Lee AY,Nakagawa H,Nogita T,Ishibashi Y

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tumor of 60 years' duration overlying the sternum of an 87-year-old woman is described. Histologically, the tumor was composed of lobules and cords of epithelial cells with finely granular, eosinophilic cytoplasm. The epithelial nests were floating in large pools of mucinous stroma, separated by thin fibrovascular s...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Sakamoto F,Ito M,Matumura G,Sato Y,Kimura S

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine mucin-producing sweat gland carcinoma (EMPSGC) is a rare cutaneous adnexal malignancy with predilection for the eyelids of older adults. It must be distinguished from metastatic adenocarcinomas of extracutaneous origin and from benign adnexal proliferations on partial samples when a solid growth component an...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Parra O,Linos K,Yan S,Lilo M,LeBlanc RE

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of conditions with mucinous deposits is given. The most important factors for their diagnosis are to consider these disorders and to stain the slides for proteoglycans or glycosaminoglycans; the most common routine techniques are the Giemsa and the Alcian-blue stain. More sophisticated methods allow different...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Steigleder GK,Küchmeister B

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cystic panfolliculoma is a benign follicular neoplasm which recapitulates several portions of the hair follicle. The patient was a 64-year-old Caucasian female who presented with a new growth on her right forearm. The lesion had slowly enlarged over the previous 11 months. She complained of it bleeding on several oc...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Neill B,Bingham C,Braudis K,Zurowski S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Podoconiosis is a familial geochemical dermatosis which is common in Ethiopia but relatively unknown in Europe/United States. It is related to exposure of bare feet to volcanic soil and presents with extensive bilateral lymphedema of legs and feet. Histopathological and immunohistochemical features of it hav...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Wendemagegn E,Tirumalae R,Böer-Auer A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) shows cutaneous involvement in 2% of cases. Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare primary cutaneous epithelial neoplasm most commonly found in sun-exposed sites in elderly male Caucasians. A 66-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of a purple painless 2 cm tumor on the scal...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Craig PJ,Calonje JE,Harries M,Stefanato CM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light and electron-microscopic studies were performed on the amelanotic and adjacent normal-appearing skin in patients with vitiligo. The amelanotic skin revealed complete loss of pigment and absence of melanocytes. In addition to severe degenerative changes of melanocytes, varying degree of damage was also seen in th...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Bhawan J,Bhutani LK

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Wnt-signaling pathway, involving beta-catenin, apc, and axin, plays a critical role in numerous developmental events. Alterations in the Wnt-signaling pathway have been detected in a wide variety of neoplasms. However, similar aberrations have not been described in Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC). The aim of...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Liu S,Daa T,Kashima K,Kondoh Y,Yokoyama S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histopathologic findings in 331 cases of necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum seen during a 50-year period were reviewed. Three cases showing cholesterol cleft formation were found. All 3 cases were associated with severe diabetes mellitus. The differential diagnosis of importance is necrobiotic xanthogranuloma. Com...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Gibson LE,Reizner GT,Winkelmann RK

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with thrombocytopenia-absent radius (TAR) syndrome, multisystemic Langerhans cell histiocytosis and multiple reticulohistiocytomas. A mutational study by massive sequencing identified the Val600Glu (V600E) BRAF mutation in the Langerhans cell histiocytosis lesions, but no molecular alterations we...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Hipólito LN,Mendoza-Cembranos MD,Villaescusa MT,Jo-Velasco M,Requena L,Alegría-Landa V

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty cases of poorly differentiated carcinomas of the skin were examined for the expression of vimentin. All cases expressed cytokeratins; in addition, 12 cases were positive for vimentin. These were all non-reactive with antibodies to S100 protein, HMB45 and desmin. The finding of vimentin in poorly differentiated ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Iyer PV,Leong AS

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenomyoepithelioma is a rare, microscopically distinctive tumor of the skin. This article explores an example that presented in the inguinal area in a 29-year-old woman, mimicking adenopathy. Histopathologically, the tumor included two different areas: a cystic area consisting of tubules and glands in hyalinized stro...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Sabater Marco V

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is not clear why melanocyte disappearance occurs without fibrotic evolution in halo nevus and with fibrotic evolution in regressing melanoma. METHODS:Six halo nevi, seven regressing primary melanomas, and seven primary melanoma (PM) without regression were studied using immunohistochemistry for the pheno...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Moretti S,Spallanzani A,Pinzi C,Prignano F,Fabbri P

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Erythema elevatum diutinum (EED) is a rare vasculitis with variable clinical presentation which diagnosis can be challenging. Herein we want to describe the clinicopathological spectrum of findings in five cases of EED. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed five cases in a single institution collected over a ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Sardiña LA,Jour G,Piliang MP,Bergfeld WF

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous immune-related adverse events (irAEs) are a known consequence of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy and may exhibit a spectrum of morphologic features both clinically and histologically. Lichenoid dermatitis associated with ICI therapy (LD-ICI) is the most frequently encountered histopathologic type o...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Tetzlaff MT,Tang S,Duke T,Grabell DA,Cabanillas ME,Zuo Z,Yao JC,Nagarajan P,Aung PP,Torres-Cabala CA,Duvic M,Prieto VG,Huen A,Curry JL

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histological picture of molluscum contagiosum (MC) is well known: the epidermis grows down into the dermis as multiple, closely packed pear-shaped lobules. The epithelial cells of the outermost layers and the horny layer display typical molluscum bodies. In this paper, we describe an unusual case of MC in a cystic...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Aloi FG,Pippione M

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunotherapies targeting cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) and the programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) receptor and its ligand (PD-L1) have showed substantial therapeutic benefit in patients with clinically advanced solid malignancies. However, autoimmune toxicities are common and often significant adve...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Tetzlaff MT,Jazaeri AA,Torres-Cabala CA,Korivi BR,Landon GA,Nagarajan P,Choksi A,Chen L,Uemura M,Aung PP,Diab A,Sharma P,Davies MA,Amaria R,Prieto VG,Curry JL

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pemphigoides gestationis (PG) is a blistering disorder of pregnancy caused by antibodies against basement membrane proteins. They are directed against the 180 kD bullous pemphigoid antigen (BPAg2), towards the epitopes within the NC 16A domain. There are many similarities between pemphigoid gestationis and b...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Patton T,Plunkett RW,Beutner EH,Deng JS,Jukic DM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Follicular mycosis fungoides is an unusual variant of mycosis fungoides (MF). Unlike classic MF where atypical lymphocytes show a predilection for the epidermis (epidermotropism), follicular MF displays a malignant lymphocytic infiltrate tropic for hair follicles (folliculotropism). This malignant lymphocyti...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： DeBloom J 2nd,Severson J,Gaspari A,Scott G

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of CD117 immunostaining for diagnosing cutaneous adnexal tumors, which has not been previously established. METHODS:CD117 immunostaining was performed on representative sections of 87 clinicopathologically confirmed cutaneous apocrine/eccrine tumors, 1...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Goto K

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lesions of nine patients with early striae distensae (SD) during puberty were examined by light and electron microscopy. Specific changes were seen in very early stage SD, and in clinically uninvolved skin 0.5 to 3 cm remote from the edge of the long axis of the SD lesions. Sequential changes of elastolysis accomp...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Sheu HM,Yu HS,Chang CH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 54-year-old female presented with the cutaneous metastases of the breast carcinoma that produced combination of pigmented zosteriform eruption on the trunk and eroded plaque on the scalp, 13 years after radical mastectomy. Histologically, zosteriform lesions displayed prominent infiltration of the epidermis in nesti...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Brasanac D,Boricic I,Todorovic V

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of cancer involves epithelial-stromal interactions. Alterations in the synthesis and deposition of type I and III collagens are related to the tumor morphology. Skin carcinogenesis in experimental animals provides a reliable model for the development of neoplasia. Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation is the ma...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Stenbäck F,Mäkinen MJ,Jussila T,Kauppila S,Risteli J,Talve L,Risteli L

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of a cutaneous symplastic leiomyoma in a 37-year-old woman who presented with a 4-year history of a painful slow growing lesion on the left upper arm. The lesion was excised and subjected to histological examination. A poorly circumscribed lesion was seen in the dermis composed of spindle shaped c...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Usmani N,Merchant W,Yung A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genital leiomyoma in men include those superficial leiomyomas arising in the scrotum and the areola. They are unusual neoplasms: few cases have been reported in the literature and they usually escape clinical diagnosis. Three cases of male genital leiomyomas are reported: two in the scrotum and one in the areola. They...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Suárez-Peñaranda JM,Vieites B,Evgenyeva E,Vázquez-Veiga H,Forteza J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to silver-containing compounds can result in reversible discoloration of the skin, presenting as an irregular brown or black macule, which can have a clinical appearance similar to melanoma. Both the clinical scenario and the histopathology are unique. Silver nitrate darkens with exposure to light, and the ar...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Ondrasik RM,Jordan P,Sriharan A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imiquimod (AldaraTM), a Toll-like receptor 7 agonist (TLR7), is known for its unique properties of being an immune response modifier and stimulator. Upon topical application, this TLR7 agonist triggers a cell-mediated immune response predominantly expressed by dendritic cells and monocytes. Local skin irritation at th...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Barr KL,Konia TH,Fung MA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and a related family member, neurturin (NTN), as well as their cognate receptors (GDNF receptors, GFRalpha-1 and GFRalpha-2, respectively) are involved in nervous system development and murine hair cycle control. To date, their expression in human scalp skin...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Adly MA,Assaf HA,Hussein MR,Paus R

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00