The T1796A mutation of the BRAF gene is absent in Spitz nevi.

abstract：:Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a well-established marker for sweat gland differentiation in adnexal neoplasms. In contrast to previous assumptions, CEA does not represent a single oncofetal antigen but comprises a family of homologous glycoproteins, i.e. the classical CEA-180, biliary glycoprotein (BGP), and non-sp...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Metze D,Grunert F,Neumaier M,Bhardwaj R,Amann U,Wagener C,Luger TA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of eosinophilic ulcer of the tongue is presented. Although the entity is rarely described, the distinctive histopathologic pattern featuring the remarkable presence of eosinophils in the superficial corium and in between muscle bundles, together with the benign clinical course, make a diagnosis possible. ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Borroni G,Pericoli R,Gabba P,Rosso R,Rabbiosi G

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the clinical, histologic, and immunofluorescence features of 20 patients with pemphigus and neoplasia and compared them with a control group of 17 patients with pemphigus without neoplasia. Patients with neoplasia were divided according to clinical, histologic, and immunofluorescence findings into those wi...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Mehregan DR,Oursler JR,Leiferman KM,Muller SA,Anhalt GJ,Peters MS

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a rare soft tissue tumor that arises primarily on the trunk and extremities but seldom on the scalp. Several variants of DFSP have been described, including myxoid DFSP. Although typical DFSP may have focally myxoid areas, myxoid DFSP, in which most of the stroma is myxoid, is...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Tran P,Henderson GP,McLemore M

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Cutaneous mastocytosis is a disease characterized by the infiltration and proliferation of mast cells in the skin. In children, the most common form of presentation is urticaria pigmentosa, while the diffuse cutaneous bullous mastocytosis is one of the rarest subtypes seen. The aim of this paper is to present a case o...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Slavescu KC,Chiorean R,Danescu S,Bota M,Rogojan L,Baican A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-vaccinial non-viral folliculitis has been recognized in the past decade as a new adverse cutaneous reaction to smallpox vaccination. Contrary to more serious smallpox vaccine reactions, post-vaccinial non-viral folliculitis has a benign course and resolves spontaneously within approximately 7 days. We describe ad...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Bunick CG,Mariwalla K,Ibrahim O,Modi B,Imaeda S,McNiff JM

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The usual method for detecting spirochetes in tissue sections is the silver stain; however, they are often difficult to detect due to marked background staining commonly seen with this technique. In certain clinical settings, such as neurosyphilis, congenital syphilis, and immunosuppressive conditions including human ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Hoang MP,High WA,Molberg KH

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral melanoacanthoma is a rarely-reported, benign pigmented lesion of oral mucosa. Spongiosis was only recently mentioned as a light-microscopical finding occasionally seen in oral melanoacanthoma, and the formation of spongiotic intraepithelial vesicles to our knowledge has never been reported. The authors discuss a ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Zemtsov A,Bergfeld WF

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Considerable controversy has surrounded the question of possible biological responses to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) generated from visual display terminals (VDTs), such as personal computers (PCs) and ordinary television sets (TVs). The cellular and molecular mechanisms for such potential harmful health h...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Johansson O,Gangi S,Liang Y,Yoshimura K,Jing C,Liu PY

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarizable calcium oxalate (CaOx) crystals have been well documented in breast biopsies, generally associated with benign apocrine metaplasia. In contrast, polarizable crystals are only rarely reported in skin adnexal neoplasms. We report 3 different cases of sweat gland tumors with polarizable crystals morphological...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Johnson G,Gardner JM,Shalin SC

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histologic, immunologic and electron microscopic studies were performed in a patient with transient acantholytic dermatosis which involved oral mucosa. Hitologic and electron microscopic findings were almost identical in both cutaneous and mucous membrane lesions, and these were similar to pemphigus vulgaris; suprabas...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kanzaki T,Hashimoto K

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free-living amebae are ubiquitous in our environment, but rarely cause cutaneous infection. Balamuthia mandrillaris has a predilection for infecting skin of the central face. Infection may be restricted to the skin or associated with life-threatening central nervous system (CNS) involvement. We report a case of a 91-y...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Chang OH,Liu F,Knopp E,Muehlenbachs A,Cope JR,Ali I,Thompson R,George E

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral mucosal melanoma (OMM) is an extremely rare malignancy, accounting for < 0.5% of all melanomas and all oral malignancies. The rarity of OMM, the heterogeneity in clinical and histopathologic appearances, and the paucity of molecular and genetic studies to date have limited our knowledge of the etiopathogenesis of...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kumar SK,Shuler CF,Sedghizadeh PP,Kalmar JR

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 77-year-old male undergoing treatment for mycosis fungoides (MF) who presented for removal of an acrochordon on his mid back. Histopathologic examination of the acrochordon revealed a dense, band-like lymphocytic inflammatory infiltrate in the dermis with epidermotropism of single lymphocytes ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： McClain CM,Cole MB,Robbins JB,Kantrow SM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxofibrosarcomas (MFSs) are sarcomas most commonly seen in older patients. These are tumors of deep soft tissue seen in subcutaneous tissue and deep fascia, with frequent muscle involvement. These sarcomas are notorious for recurrences and progression to a higher grade with notable metastatic potential. They are very...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Singh A,Brar RK,Dey B,Nigam J,Deshpande A

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent genetic investigations support the idea that basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is trichoblastic carcinoma. However, it is generally thought that clear cell basal cell carcinoma is a result of degeneration rather than tricholemmal differentiation. METHODS:We report a case of BCC, with clear cell components, ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Misago N,Satoh T,Narisawa Y

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term preservation of immunofluorescence is important for re-examinations. We investigated whether the storage of direct immunofluorescent (DIF)-positive slides at room temperature was reliable in daily practice. METHODS:One hundred and twenty-five DIF-positive slides from the skin of 52 patients were e...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Dikicioglu E,Meteoglu I,Okyay P,Culhaci N,Kacar F

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Misonidazole, a hypoxic cell radiation-sensitizer, has been used in vivo to analyze its effect on normal and x-irradiated epidermis. The drug action was evaluated 3 days after being implanted subcutaneously. The response of the epidermis and especially of the basal cells to the drug alone and in combination with x-rad...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： de Rey BM,Lanfranchi HE,Klein-Szanto AJ,Itoiz ME

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in the understanding of the metastatic phenomenon in cancer have led to the description of a metastatic niche. This concept describes a site prepared for the tumor cells in areas frequently associated with metastasis for the individual tumor studied. This niche is a "soil" that allows for the tumor cel...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Mihm MC Jr,Nelson JS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We first report a case of granular cell histiocytosis occurring as a solitary polypoid lesion of the nipple in a 15-year-old girl. Histologically, the lesion was composed of a dermal population of medium- to large-sized, short spindle- to round- to epithelioid-shaped cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm containing numero...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Caltabiano R,Magro G,Vecchio GM,Lanzafame S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bcl-2 proto-oncogene encodes a protein that protects cells from programmed cell death (apoptosis). High levels of this protein confer a growth advantage to neoplastic cells even in the absence of a high mitotic rate. This gene is involved in the interchromosomal 14;18 translocation, an abnormality present in more ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Cerroni L,Kerl H

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of basal cell carcinoma with "monster cells" is reported. Clinically, the lesion presented as a red nodule on the forearm of a 58-year-old male. The histologic picture was striking, with large, "monstrous" nuclei scattered throughout a well defined nodule. Basal cell carcinoma with monster cells appears to repr...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Elston DM,Bergfeld WF,Petroff N

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous lesions of lupus erythematosus (LE) show a broad spectrum of clinicopathologic features. Histopathologically, besides typical patterns such as interface dermatitis, perivascular lymphocytic infiltrate and dermal mucin deposits, an involvement of the eccrine structures, especially the acrosyringium, may be ob...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Fried I,Wiesner T,Cerroni L

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three selected cases of transient acantholytic dermatosis were studied because of their definitive correlation with sweating due to fever and/ or bed-ridden situations. Biopsy specimens were serially sectioned and acantholysis was found in the acrosyringium or traced to connect to the acrosyringium in all biopsy speci...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Hashimoto K,Moiin A,Chang MW,Tada J

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma membrane ultrastructure of the extramammary Paget cells was characterized by freeze-fracture electron microscopy, which was first employed for the study of Paget cells. The Paget cell plasma membrane revealed a flat fractured plane with much fewer and smaller desmosome-particle aggregations than those of th...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kitajima Y,Mori S

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinonasal non-keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), previously designated as transitional cell carcinoma or cylindrical cell carcinoma, is an uncommon malignant neoplasm with distinct histopathological features, considered to be a low-grade malignancy that usually occurs in elderly patients. Extensive local inva...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Guo R,Metcalf S,Crowson AN

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX) is an uncommon cutaneous neoplasm of pleomorphic myofibroblast-like cells. Diagnosis requires exclusion of other undifferentiated spindle and pleomorphic cell neoplasms by immunohistochemistry. We report two patients with p63-non-reactive spindle cell neoplasms which resembled AFX but demo...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Ellis R,Chase E,Barland A,Rajpara A,Fraga GR

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML) in blast transformation with extensive involvement of the skin is reported. The leukemic infiltrates consisted of blasts with lymphoblastoid morphology which were positive for terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) by fluorescent assay. The infiltrates rapidly reso...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Ansell JE,Bhawan J,Pechet L

更新日期：1980-10-01 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