Immunohistochemistry for CD117 (KIT) is effective in distinguishing cutaneous adnexal tumors with apocrine/eccrine or sebaceous differentiation from other epithelial tumors of the skin.

abstract：:Erythrodermic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (E-CTCL) is the cause of less than 5% of all cases of generalized erythroderma. A methodical evaluation of skin, blood, and lymph node samples using standard histology, immunohistochemistry (IHC), flow cytometry (FC), and molecular analysis for evidence of a dominant T-cell clon...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Vonderheid EC

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term survivors of harlequin ichthyosis (HI) have raised a controversy over the differences between HI and lamellar ichthyosis (LI). Abnormal lamellar granules and the failure of conversion from profilaggrin to filaggrin have been reported in HI. On the other hand, malformation of the cornified cell envelope as a ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Akiyama M,Yoneda K,Kim SY,Koyama H,Shimizu H

更新日期：1996-12-01 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: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

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：: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 12-year-old male presented with an 8-year history of five firm cream colored papules on the right vertex of the scalp. A biopsy showed a dense infiltrate of monomorphous mast cells involving the dermis and extending into the subcutis. A relatively well-circumscribed cluster of larger cells showed pleomorphic nuclei ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Lachapelle J,Moroz B,Nguyen VH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the first demonstration of skin antibodies in sera of pemphigus patients by IF (Beutner & Jordon 1964), the scope of skin diseases in which immunologic findings may be of interest has enormously enlarged and dermatology remains one of the leading clinical specialities applying IHC in both diagnosis and research....

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Thivolet J,Faure M

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Becker nevus (BN) is a unilateral, hairy, pigmented cutaneous hamartoma that frequently appears in adolescence. Several features of BN suggest that increased androgen sensitivity plays a role in its pathogenesis. There have been only a few studies of histopathologic and immunohistochemical characteristics of...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kim YJ,Han JH,Kang HY,Lee ES,Kim YC

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycosis fungoides in palmoplantar localization (MFPP) is a rare variant of MF that is confined to the hands and feet. Patients commonly receive treatment over many years for suspected palmoplantar dermatitis before the diagnosis is made. Most MFPP patients remain at patch or plaque stage, and often respond to treatmen...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Pham AK,Carter JB,Ratcliffe NR,Fuld AD,Lansigan F,Burnside NJ,Guill MA 3rd,Zug KA,Jarvis LA,LeBlanc RE

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White sponge nevus (WSN) is an uncommon benign inherited disorder characterized by white and diffuse painless lesions in oral, esophageal, or genital mucosa. The lesions may develop at birth or later in childhood or adolescence, with careful clinical examination being sufficient for diagnosis in most cases. However, m...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Bezerra KT,Leite TC,Roza ALOC,Araújo R,Israel MS,Canedo NHS,Agostini M,Benevenuto de Andrade BA,Romañach MJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillamine-induced cutaneous elastosis perforans serpiginosa associated with a large air-cyst in the right lung is described in a 29-year-old female patient with Wilson disease. Identical light and electron-microscopic changes were present in both dermal and pulmonary elastic tissue, suggesting a disseminated drug-...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Bardach H,Gebhart W,Niebauer G

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 27-year-old woman developed many nodular lesions, ranging in diameter from 3 mm to 15 mm and clinically indistinguishable from dermatofibromas. Light microscopic examination showed large amounts of mucin, fibroblasts and histiocytes throughout the dermis. Electron microscopic study revealed wide electron lucent area...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Zina AM,Bundino S

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated bacillus Calmette-Guérin infection (BCGitis) is an uncommon condition which is usually associated with primary immunodeficiency. Skin histopathology findings have been described in rare cases only. A retrospective clinicopathological study was performed to assess the potential utility of skin biopsies in ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Gantzer A,Neven B,Picard C,Brousse N,Lortholary O,Fischer A,Bodemer C,Fraitag S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Telomerase plays a role in the immortalization of cells and carcinogenesis. Previous studies have yielded conflicting results on whether human telomerase RNA (hTER) expression differs in nevi, atypical nevi and melanomas using polymerase chain reaction-based telomeric repeat amplification protocol or in situ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Fullen DR,Zhu W,Thomas D,Su LD

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differing classification schemes for malignant lymphomas have been used in Europe and the United States. Attempts to translate between the principle classifications have been unsuccessful and historically it has been difficult to arrive at an unified approach. In addition, many new lymphoma entities have been recogniz...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Sander CA,Kind P,Kaudewitz P,Raffeld M,Jaffe ES

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cell origin of dermatofibroma (DF) has not been clarified satisfactorily. This study was undertaken to assess the distribution of fibroblasts and the relationship between fibroblasts and other constituent cells in DF by 47-kDa heat-shock protein (HSP47), a cell marker for skin fibroblast. METHODS:Immuno...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kuroda K,Tajima S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arrector pili (AP) muscle is a small band of smooth muscle that attaches proximally to the bulge area of the pilosebaceous apparatus in the reticular dermis and extends up toward the epidermis. The distal anatomy of the AP and the anchorage mechanism allowing hair erection have not been previously described. Integ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Mendelson JK,Smoller BR,Mendelson B,Horn TD

更新日期：2000-02-01 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:Epidermal nevi (in the broad sense of epithelial nevi) may give rise to benign or malignant skin tumors. They may also be associated with anomalies of other organ systems in an epidermal nevus syndrome. RESULTS:This article describes a preterm infant with nevus sebaceus of the scalp and face, a large turban...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Regalado JJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a hitherto undescribed unusual CD30+ clonal T-cell proliferation in a 46-year-old man with the lymphocytic variant of hypereosinophilic syndrome with a 17-year history of pruritus, generalized persistent papulonodular skin lesions and peripheral blood hypereosinophilia. A skin biopsy showed an eosinophil-ric...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kempf W,Kazakov DV,Szep Z,Vanecek T

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Adenoma sebaceum of Pringle" (ASP) is a misnomer. The tumor is not an adenoma and is not derived from sebaceous glands. The lesion is characterized by dermal fibrosis and associated vascular proliferation and dilatation. Changes in contiguous sebaceous glands and other adnexal structures are merely secondary. Thus, "...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Sanchez NP,Wick MR,Perry HO

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is known to show considerable variation in its histopathological presentation. In exceptional cases, heterologous or divergent differentiation (metaplastic melanoma) can be observed. We report a case of a 69-year-old man who was diagnosed with nodular melanoma on the right upper leg. One year later, the patie...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kilsdonk MJ,Romeijn TR,Kelder W,van Kempen LC,Diercks GF

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 20-year-old male patient with an atypical Spitz tumor, located in the dorsal aspect of his left hand, and a positive sentinel axillary lymph node. After lymphadenectomy, 1 of 23 non-sentinel lymph nodes excised was found to contain small multiple deposits of large spindle atypical melanocytes. Reviewing th...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Urso C,Borgognoni L,Doria M,Tinacci G,Zini E

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peristomal ulcer with cutaneous intestinal metaplasia, defined by scattered colonic crypts within variably intact epidermis, is an exceedingly rare pathologic diagnosis, which possesses the potential to progress to primary adenocarcinoma. Herein, we report the third case of cutaneous intestinal metaplasia in a peristo...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Tinker DG,Roberts S,Hurley MY,Missall TA

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of syringocystadenoma papilliferum (SCAP) with a unique histopathology. A 50-year-old Japanese woman presented with a pedunculated tumor in the pubic region. Histopathological examination showed that the tumor was composed of basaloid cell proliferation interconnecting from the epidermis to the derm...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kishibe M,Iwasaki T,Takahashi I,Ishida-Yamamoto A

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine mucin-producing sweat gland carcinoma is a cutaneous adnexal tumor that is rarely reported in the literature. We identified only 29 previously reported cases. All these cases share some clinical morphologic and immunohistochemical features. Among the immunohistochemical markers, cytokeratins 5/6, 8 and 18 (C...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Fernandez-Flores A,Cassarino DS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Erythroderma, defined as red skin covering most of the body surface often accompanied or followed by exfoliation, is the clinical manifestation of at least six different underlying etiologies with allergic or irritant contact dermatitis, atopic/asteotic dermatitis, pityriasis rubra pilaris (PRP), psoriasis, ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Cherny S,Mraz S,Su L,Harvell J,Kohler S

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Langerhans' cell histiocytosis (LCH) may be associated with a wide range of neoplastic disorders. However, the combination of a LCH and a basal cell carcinoma (BCC) of the skin still represents a highly unusual condition. In this publication, we report the case of a 48-year-old woman who developed a localized LCH invo...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Simonart T,Urbain F,Verdebout JM,Feoli F,Lespagnard L,Dargent JL

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:In the absence of mites, the histologic diagnosis of human scabies can be difficult. Scabies can mimic a variety of inflammatory and lymphoproliferative disorders. It is under-recognized that scabies can also mimic Langerhans cell histiocytosis. METHODS:Sixteen examples of scabies were reviewed histologically and ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Bhattacharjee P,Glusac EJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00