A rare case of primary cutaneous plasmacytoma-like lymphoproliferative disorder following renal transplantation.

abstract：:A 1-month-old female infant was seen in consultation because of a congenital subcutaneous nodule, 2 x 3 cm in diameter, in the right retroauricular area. The nodule was surgically excised. Histologically, a large subcutaneous nodular mass was well delimited but not encapsulated. It consisted of a monomorphous sheet of...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Sánchez Yus E,Requena L,Villegas C,Valle P

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients with traumatic alopecia (trichotillomania) were being investigated histologically and, in five of them, hairs from the affected scalp area were plucked out for direct microscopic examination. Some histologic features appear to be specific markers for traumatic alopecia: empty hair ducts, plucked out hair ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Lachapelle JM,Pierard GE

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subungual melanoma commonly presents with solitary longitudinal melanonychia. Herein, we report the case of a patient with subungual melanoma who developed involvement of three digits by three independent primary melanomas. A 98-year-old male patient presented with a two-year history of longitudinal melanonychia on th...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Liu Y,Wang L

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of findings in relation to warts have been passed on from one textbook to the other since the end of the last century. More recent studies have been carried out with the electron microscope. But information is lacking as to histology, histochemistry, examination with the phase-contrast microscope, with th...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Steigleder GK

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans is a low-grade sarcoma of the skin with well characterized clinical and histopathological features. The lesion frequently appears as a plaque on the trunk or on the extremities of middle-aged adults. Microscopically, the tumor is composed of monomorphous spindle cells arranged in storif...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Diaz-Cascajo C,Weyers W,Borghi S

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Silver dressings have been widely and successfully used to prevent cutaneous wounds, including burns, chronic ulcers, dermatitis and other cutaneous conditions, from infection. However, in a few cases, skin discolouration or argyria-like appearances have been reported. This study investigated the level of si...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Wang XQ,Chang HE,Francis R,Olszowy H,Liu PY,Kempf M,Cuttle L,Kravchuk O,Phillips GE,Kimble RM

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The term spitzoid melanoma (SM) is reserved for a rare group of tumors with striking resemblance to Spitz nevus, often developing in children diagnosed in retrospect after the development of metastases. OBJECTIVES:To determine the biological significance of SM and to analyze the effectiveness of adjuvant ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Paradela S,Fonseca E,Pita S,Kantrow SM,Goncharuk VN,Diwan H,Prieto VG

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:We encountered a patient who complained of many small papules on the neck, shoulders, upper chest and upper back. Biopsy specimens showed complete loss of elastic fibers in the upper dermis including papillary dermis, whereas those of the mid dermis were intact. Electron microscopy revealed that assembly of component ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Hashimoto K,Tye MJ

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Folliculo-sebaceous cystic hamartoma (FCH) was described as an entity recently and was defined as an adnexal hamartoma, showing above all an infundibular cystic structure linked to many sebaceous lobules. Differentiation toward the inferior segment of the hair follicle also occurs, although to a markedly lesser degree...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Schulz T,Hartschuh W

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even though only 33 cases of Erythromelanosis follicularis faciei et colli (EFFC) have been reported around the world, there have been no quantitative clinicopathological studies yet. The purpose of this study is to examine quantitatively clinical and histopathological evaluations of EFFC using image analysi...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kim MG,Hong SJ,Son SJ,Song HJ,Kim IH,Oh CH,Moon JS

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:BRCA1-associated protein 1 (BAP1) represents a recently identified tumor suppressor protein. Loss of BAP1 has been observed in cutaneous epithelioid Spitz tumors. These cutaneous melanocytic tumors show a distinct histopathologic phenotype characterized by an intradermal sheet-like proliferation of epithelio...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Gammon B,Traczyk TN,Gerami P

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Atypical cellular blue nevus (ACBN) has clinicopathologic features intermediate between typical cellular blue nevus (CBN) and the rare malignant blue nevus (MBN)/malignant melanoma (MM) arising in a CBN. Herein we report 9 cases of ACBN. The patients were caucasian (6 females and 3 males) with a mean and median age of...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Tran TA,Carlson JA,Basaca PC,Mihm MC

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the exception of skin cancer, prostatic adenocarcinoma represents the most common cancer among men in the United States and the second most common cause of cancer mortality. Mortality is often associated with metastatic disease, which in the case of prostatic adenocarcinoma typically involves bones and only rarel...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Rattanasirivilai A,Kurban A,Lenzy YM,Yaar R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year old Caucasian female with a remote history of urticaria pigmentosa presented with a neck mass. A biopsy demonstrated a large intradermal nodule composed of unusually large epithelioid mast cells, including a prominent subset with bi-lobed and multi-lobed nuclei. By immunohistochemistry, the cells expressed ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Tran DT,Jokinen CH,Argenyi ZB

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The differential diagnosis of acral keratoses is broad. Encompassing a variety of infectious, heritable and degenerative disorders, emphasis upon the clinical setting and histologic subtlety are often required to arrive at the correct diagnosis. Herein, we report on a series of adult patients who presented with ag...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Saeed S,Sagatys E,Morgan MB

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients who present with patch and early plaque stage mycosis fungoides follow an indolent course and survive for many years following diagnosis. A certain subset of patients, however, have rapidly progressive disease leading to accelerated demise. We examined 21 histologic sections from initial biopsies taken f...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Smoller BR,Detwiler SP,Kohler S,Hoppe RT,Kim YH

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：:The basal cell adhesion molecule (B-CAM) is a 90-kD cell surface glycoprotein with a characteristic immunoglobulin domain structure. The pattern of B-CAM expression in cultured cells suggests that the molecule is associated with a substrate-adherent growth pattern in some lineages. We investigated the expression of B-...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Bernemann TM,Podda M,Wolter M,Boehncke WH

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The so-called perivascular epithelioid cell neoplasm (PEComa) family includes angiomyolipoma, clear cell 'sugar' tumor (CCST), lymphangioleiomyomatosis, and clear cell myomelanocytic tumor (CCMMT). These rare tumors are characterized by the co-expression of melanocytic and muscle markers. They have been recognized in ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： de Saint Aubain Somerhausen N,Gomez Galdon M,Bouffioux B,Courtin C,Theunis A,Vogeleer MN,Myant N

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report three new cases of neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis associated with induction chemotherapy which resolves two major points. First, because two of our patients had testicular carcinoma; this firmly establishes that NEH is not exclusively seen in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia or Hodgkin's lymphoma ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Fitzpatrick JE,Bennion SD,Reed OM,Wilson T,Reddy VV,Golitz L

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brooke-Spiegler syndrome represents an autosomal dominant disease characterized by the occurrence of multiple cylindromas, trichoepitheliomas and (sporadically) spiroadenomas. Patients with Brooke-Spiegler syndrome are also at risk of developing tumors of the major and minor salivary glands. Patients with Brooke-Spieg...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Ponti G,Nasti S,Losi L,Pastorino L,Pollio A,Benassi L,Giudice S,Bertazzoni G,Veratti E,Azzoni P,Bianchi Scarrà G,Seidenari S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 57-year-old woman with cutaneous mastocytosis of 23 years duration developed a hyperpigmented abdominal plaque composed of confluent indurated papules that enlarged for a period of 1 year to 12 x 8 cm. Biopsy showed dermal infiltration by closely packed spindle-shaped mast cells, fibroblasts, collagen, and scattered...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Wood C,Sina B,Webster CG,Kurgansky D,Drachenberg CB,Reedy EA

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lymphocytic subtypes effecting allogeneic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) are unknown. We studied 35 skin biopsy specimens from 19 women transplanted with bone marrow from men for patterns and time course of infiltration of the skin by Y chromosome-bearing lymphocytes using in situ hybridization. Immunophenotypic...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Horn TD,Haskell J

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthogranulomas are benign lesions composed of macrophages in which some of the cells have vacuolated cytoplasm. They commonly occur in children, referred to as juvenile xanthogranulomata, and are histopathologically characterized by the presence of Touton giant cells. Xanthogranuloma can also occur in adults. A woma...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Cohen PR,Prieto VG

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep wrinkles of 6 elderly people were investigated using electron microscopy. There were ultrastructural differences in the elastotic changes between the area of the wrinkle and the surrounding areas. Elastic fibers containing electron-dense inclusions were mostly seen in the upper dermis of the wrinkled area and wer...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Tsuji T

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fundamental to our understanding of skin diseases and their presentation is an understanding of the pattern of their development. When we have established the molecular basis of their development we will be in a much better position to control and treat such diseases. The homeobox genes are a family of regulatory prot...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Brown WM,Stenn KS

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-year-old boy presented with a 6-month history of a red papule on the nasal septum. Physical examination was otherwise unremarkable. A biopsy specimen showed an epithelioid sarcoma characterized by nodular collections of epithelioid tumor cells with central, tumor cell necrosis. By immunohistochemistry the tumor ce...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Billings SD,Hood AF

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The present study evaluates the signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (STAT-3) expression and activation in actinic cheilitis (AC) and the relationship of this protein with the degree of epithelial dysplasia. METHODS:Twenty-five cases of AC were analyzed. Normal lip mucosa was used as a control...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Cury PR,Furuse C,de Araújo NS,de Araújo VC

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00