Influence of variability in assessment of Breslow thickness, mitotic rate and ulceration among US pathologists interpreting invasive melanoma, for the purpose of AJCC staging.

abstract：:Claudins are a family of transmembrane proteins involved in cell-to-cell adhesion and are believed to be the main component of tight junctions. Recent studies have suggested that some metastatic solid tumors lack claudin expression. It is unknown whether claudins play a role in cutaneous melanoma. Immunohistochemical ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Cohn ML,Goncharuk VN,Diwan AH,Zhang PS,Shen SS,Prieto VG

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cutaneous extranodal marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) represents a monoclonal B-cell neoplasm that typically presents with papules, plaques or nodules. We describe a patient with a primary cutaneous MALT lymphoma with unusual clinical features and an unusual immunophenot...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Edinger JT,Lorenzo CR,Breneman DL,Swerdlow SH

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extravasation of doxorubicin in skin and soft tissue causes necrosis and ulceration. These ulcers form slowly and heal with great difficulty. The cause of ulceration is not known. Histologic changes in two patients suggest that an exaggeration of interface dermatitis like epidermal changes may be responsible for epide...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Bhawan J,Petry J,Rybak ME

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:BRAF, a serine/threonine kinase, is a component of the retrovirus-associated sequence (RAS)-RAF-extracellular-regulated protein kinase (ERK)-MAP kinase signal transduction pathway mediating signals from RAS to ERK. The T1796A single point mutation in exon 15 of the BRAF gene has recently been reported in a h...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Palmedo G,Hantschke M,Rütten A,Mentzel T,Hügel H,Flaig MJ,Yazdi AS,Sander CA,Kutzner H

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of 'cellular dermal nodule in melanocytic nevi' is challenging, as it can simulate invasive and tumorigenic melanoma. Because cellular nodules are presumed benign, it is essential to differentiate them from true malignant melanoma arising within a nevus, which portends a poor prognosis. Althoug...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Xu X,Bellucci KS,Elenitsas R,Elder DE

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum amyloid P component (SAP) is present not only in all types of cutaneous amyloidosis, but also in the normal dermal elastic fibers as well as abnormal elastic fibers, such as elastotic degeneration of elastic fibers in actinic keratosis. It was previously postulated that the colloid substance in colloid milium is...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Hashimoto K,Black M

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After intradermal testing with goldsodiumthiomalate (GSTM), 5 out of 8 patients developed skin papules at the test sites, which persisted up to 20 months. The lesions were surgically excised. Histology revealed pseudolymphoma of B and T cell type containing follicular structures and occasional small granulomas. The am...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kalimo K,Räsänen L,Aho H,Mäki J,Mustikkamki UP,Rantala I

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial inflammatory dermatoses can be difficult to diagnose in their early stages; skin biopsy may help but often shows indeterminate features. The aims of our study were to identify patients presenting with a facial dermatosis requiring skin biopsy, in whom the initial histological features were classified as "non-sp...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Rhodes LE,Parslew RA,Ashworth J

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 46-year-old man had a cystic mass on the right side of his scalp. Histological examination revealed a cystic dermal nodule composed of relatively circumscribed lobules of proliferating squamous epithelium, with atypical mitoses and dyskeratotic cells of invasive structure, which was diagnosed as proliferating tricho...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Masui Y,Komine M,Kadono T,Ishiura N,Maekawa T,Ihn H,Kikuchi K,Tamaki K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In lymph nodes, classical Hodgkin lymphoma can typically be distinguished from non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) by the presence of Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells that co-express CD30 and CD15. However, anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) can show identical features, and some cas...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Cho RJ,McCalmont TH,Ai WZ,Fox LP,Treseler P,Pincus LB

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acquired lymphedema of the genitalia is a rare childhood presentation and is more common in elderly individuals secondary to pelvic/abdomenal malignancy or its therapy or worldwide due to filariasis. OBJECTIVE:Herein, we report a case of a healthy 11-year-old boy who presented with a 1-year history of chron...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Murphy MJ,Kogan B,Carlson JA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lobular capillary hemangioma, which is also named as pyogenic granuloma, is a common vascular proliferation of skin and mucous membranes. Hormonal influence in the development of lobular capillary hemangioma on the mucosal surfaces has been demonstrated but for cutaneous lesions located on the skin, this association h...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Demir Y,Demir S,Aktepe F

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Chromoblastomycosis is a chronic, suppurative, granulomatous mycosis usually confined to skin and subcutaneous tissues. The host defense mechanisms in chromoblastomycosis have not been extensively investigated. The purpose of the present study was to determine the distribution and pathways of the fungal anti...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Sotto MN,De Brito T,Silva AM,Vidal M,Castro LG

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Papillomatous stoma-related skin lesions may result from irritant reactions or infection with epidermodysplasia verruciformis human papillomavirus (HPV) types. METHODS:We report upon a papillomatous lesion at the ileostoma of a 63-year-old male with familial adenomatous polyposis and colorectal adenocarcino...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Williams CM,Wieland U,Rodning CB,Horenstein MG

更新日期：2003-04-01 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 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 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：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：:Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL/SLL) is the most common leukemia in the western world and its cutaneous dissemination a very uncommon phenomenon. Lymphomatoid papulosis (LyP) is a CD30+ lymphoproliferative disorder characterized by chronic, recurrent and self healing skin lesions. Up to 20% of patients with LyP have...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Hibler J,Salavaggione AL,Martin A,Gru AA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distinction of metastatic carcinomas to the skin from poorly differentiated primary cutaneous carcinomas and sometimes primary benign adnexal tumors can pose a significant diagnostic challenge. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of p63 and podoplanin (D2-40) immunoreactivity for separating primary ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Plaza JA,Ortega PF,Stockman DL,Suster S

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：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：:Superficial acral fibromyxoma (SAFM) is an uncommon mesenchymal soft tissue tumor with a predilection for the acral extremites and nail bed involvement. SAFM is diagnosed with clinicopathological and immunohistochemical examination. Awareness of this rare tumor is important because of amounts of benign and malignant n...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kara Polat A,Gore Karaali M,Turgut Erdemir AV,Koku Aksu AE,Leblebici C,Gurel MS

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lichen planopilaris (LPP) and frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) represent 2 entities that cause primary cicatricial alopecia. These entities are clinically different; nevertheless, the literature suggests that FFA represents a form of LPP. The main argument in support of this hypothesis is that previous studi...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Gálvez-Canseco A,Sperling L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of tubular apocrine adenoma were studied by light, histochemical, and electron microscopic methods. This benign apocrine hamartoma must be considered in the classification of appendage tumors, particularly those associated with organoid epithelial nevus, and may be confused with metastatic adenocarcinoma. Th...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Umbert P,Winkelmann RK

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a CD30+ T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma with 2 main clinical presentations: primary cutaneous ALCL (pcALCL) and systemic ALCL (sALCL). While rare cases of myxoid sALCL have been reported, there are no previous cases of myxoid pcALCL reported. We present 2 unusual cases of pcALCL sh...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Fernandez-Flores A,Eginli A,Cassarino DS

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-specific clinical findings and variable histopathological features of cutaneous tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections often make it difficult to establish a diagnosis and initiate appropriate therapy. We investigated 25 patients diagnosed with mycobacterial infections of the skin in Hanyang...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Min KW,Ko JY,Park CK

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00