abstract：BACKGROUND:The GATA family of transcription factors is an essential regulator of cellular proliferation and differentiation. In the skin, GATA-3 is critical for epidermal stratification and maintenance of barrier function. A role for GATA-3 in the development of human cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is not know...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Solus JF,Hassan K,Lee SJ,Hsi AC,Rosman IS,Dehmeri S,Schaffer A

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous leiomyomata, which are benign smooth muscle neoplasms, commonly present as dermal-based nodules or papules with smooth borders and firm consistency. Digital, particularly subungual leiomyomata are quite rare. A 16-year-old female presented to nail clinic complaining of discoloration of the lunula of the left...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Komforti M,Selim MA,Bellet JS

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histopathology is often essential to establish an accurate diagnosis. Pathology laboratories are scarce in most Sub-Saharan Africa where dermatopathology is a developing field. In resource-poor countries, most specimens are analyzed only after hematoxylin and eosin staining. The availability of special stain...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kiprono S,Muchunu J,Beltraminelli H

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic graft-vs.-host disease (GVHD) is a severe and potentially fatal complication in patients after undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplant. This disease may be hard to diagnose as it has numerous cutaneous presentations. METHODS:We report four cases of patients seen at Stanford Hospital between Janua...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Park JH,Lester L,Kim J,Kwong BY

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:Langerhans cell histocytosis (LCH) and Erdheim-Chester disease are two rare histiocytic disorders. Their occurrence in the same patient is more infrequent, but has been described. We report a case of a 38-year-old woman who presented with a diagnosis of single system cutaneous LCH. Subsequently, she developed multiple...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Johnson WT,Patel P,Hernandez A,Grandinetti LM,Huen AC,Marks S,Ho J,Monaco SE,Jaffe R,Picarsic J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of autoantibody- and immune complex-induced skin diseases is primarily based on direct immunofluorescence (DIF) microscopy. DIF staining is usually performed manually and, therefore, is labor intensive. The quality of immunohistochemical results considerably depends on the experience of the person ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Lemcke S,Sokolowski S,Rieckhoff N,Buschtez M,Kaffka C,Winter-Keil A,Schaller C,Rottmann N,Sadik CD,Stöcker W,Zillikens D,Schmidt E

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lack of highly specific clinical and histopathological criteria has contributed to the delay in diagnosis of subungual melanoma in situ in its early stages. METHODS:Eighteen cases of subungual melanoma in situ, the largest series reported to date, were analyzed to characterize the clinical and histopath...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Park SW,Jang KT,Lee JH,Park JH,Kwon GY,Mun GH,Lee DY,Lee JB,Park KK

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some examples of Bowen disease lack the characteristic broad parakeratosis making their histopathologic diagnosis particularly difficult in small and incomplete biopsies. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The archives of our dermatopathology laboratory were searched for cases of Bowen disease with >75% orthokeratosis (...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Idriss MH,Misri R,Böer-Auer A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early cutaneous Lyme disease, erythema migrans, may show different histopathologic patterns. The intent of this case series is to raise awareness of these findings to prevent misdiagnosis and keep this entity in the differential. Erythema migrans develops after a tick bite and subsequent infection with the spirochete,...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Miraflor AP,Seidel GD,Perry AE,Castanedo-Tardan MP,Guill MA,Yan S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the histogenesis of sebaceous carcinomas remains unclear, the occurrence of intraepidermal or intraepithelial sebaceous carcinoma in the epidermis or conjunctiva may suggest de novo histogenesis. This report describes a case of sebaceous carcinoma within preexisting rippled/carcinoid pattern sebaceoma. This l...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Misago N,Toda S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rare epithelial structures in benign nerve sheath tumors are almost always glandular in appearance. We describe a case of intraoral plexiform schwannoma with concurrent squamous epithelial hyperplasia. The lesion occurred as a pigmented nodule on the gingiva of a 35-year-old woman with no systemic involvement. Histolo...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Ide F,Muramatsu T,Kikuchi K,Saito I,Kusama K

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：: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:p16 immunostaining has been used to aid and improve the histopathologic evaluation of equivocal cervical lesions with associated low-grade or high-grade dysplasia. However, the utility of p16 immunostaining in the diagnosis of atypical genital skin lesions remains debatable. METHODS:We conducted a cross-sec...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Ezaldein H,Lott JP,McNiff JM,Hui P,Buza N,Ko CJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 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 diagnosis of a CD30+ cutaneous infiltrate is often difficult and requires clinicopathologic correlation. To further evaluate this challenge, initial clinical and histopathologic diagnoses were correlated with final clinicopathologic diagnosis in 44 cases with CD30 immunopositivity. Dermatopathologic evaluation con...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： De Souza A,Carter JB,Harris NL,Ferry JA,Duncan LM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histopathologic examination is sometimes inadequate for accurate and reproducible diagnosis of certain melanocytic neoplasms. As a result, more sophisticated and objective methods have been sought. The goal of this study was to identify a gene expression signature that reliably differentiated benign and mali...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Clarke LE,Warf MB,Flake DD 2nd,Hartman AR,Tahan S,Shea CR,Gerami P,Messina J,Florell SR,Wenstrup RJ,Rushton K,Roundy KM,Rock C,Roa B,Kolquist KA,Gutin A,Billings S,Leachman S

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a relatively common genetic disorder with variable phenotypes. Tumors with features of both glomus tumors and neurofibromas are exceedingly rare in literature. Herein, we report a not yet described neoplasm with features of both a glomangioma/glomus tumor and a neurofibroma arising in a pat...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Thareja S,Honigbaum A,Jukic D

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:The early stages of follicular mycosis fungoides (FMF) have not been described previously in the literature. OBJECTIVE:Our goal was to better categorize the clinicopathologic features of early stages of FMF. METHODS:The clinical notes of patients with a diagnosis of FMF seen during the previous 5 years wer...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Tomasini C,Kempf W,Novelli M,Fava P,Annessi G,Rongioletti F,Fierro MT,Quaglino P

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphomatoid granulomatosis (LG) is a rare Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated B-cell lymphoproliferative disorder presenting in middle adulthood that nearly always affects the lungs and shows cutaneous involvement in up to 50% of cases. Skin lesions are present at the time of diagnosis in roughly one-third of patient...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Rysgaard CD,Stone MS

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Acral pseudolymphomatous angiokeratoma of children (APACHE) is a disease comprised by a dense dermal infiltrate of B-lymphocytes and T-lymphocytes in which prominent blood vessels with plump endothelium are found. In the past, the lesion was interpreted as a variant of angiokeratoma, a vascular malformation, or a nevu...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Fernandez-Flores A,Fierro S,Larralde M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumors with similar or identical histopathologic features have been termed basaloid follicular hamartoma (BFH) or infundibulocystic basal cell carcinoma (BCC). BCC typically lacks immunoreactivity with cytokeratin 20 (CK20) and pleckstrin homology-like domain, family A, member 1 protein (PHLDA1). AIM:A seri...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Honarpisheh H,Glusac EJ,Ko CJ

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear dermatoses are fascinating entities that likely reflect embryologically derived cutaneous mosaicism, even when they occur after childhood. Adult blaschkitis is a rare, relapsing inflammatory dermatitis that most often presents in middle age. It presents clinically as a pruritic eruption of linear papules, vesic...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Johnson M,Walker D,Galloway W,Gardner JM,Shalin SC

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myxoid liposarcoma typically presents as a deep-seated mass in the lower extremity of adults. Presentation as a primary subcutaneous tumor is rare. Here we discuss clinicopathologic characteristics of three such cases and their differential diagnosis to alert dermatopathologists to this unusual clinical pres...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Buehler D,Marburger TB,Billings SD

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steatocystoma multiplex is characterized by the development of numerous steatocystomas. The condition has occasionally been related to congenital bilateral preauricular sinuses. Herein, we present the third case of such an association, a 34-year-old male who was born with bilateral preauricular sinuses that were surgi...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Fernandez-Flores A,Cuesta CC,García CS,del Río JS

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sebaceous tumors are adnexal neoplasms showing sebocytic differentiation. They range from benign to malignant and are associated with Muir-Torre syndrome (MTS). Several clinical and histopathological features associated with MTS have been described. Sebaceous tumors with an overlying cutaneous horn are extre...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Jhuang JY,Liao SL,Tsai JH,Chang HC,Kuo KT,Liau JY

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertrophic lichen planus (LP) is a variant of LP favoring the lower extremities and showing prominent epidermal hyperplasia and hyperorthokeratosis. Contrary to dogma that eosinophils are rare in LP and variants, we noticed that some cases of hypertrophic LP have eosinophils in the absence of drug history....

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Alomari A,McNiff JM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratoacanthoma (KA), an epithelial neoplasm occurring in sun-exposed skin of the elderly, is considered a well-differentiated form of conventional squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) that often follows a course of spontaneous regression. Distinguishing KA from conventional SCC or pseudocarcinomatous epithelial hyperplasia ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Shah K,Kazlouskaya V,Lal K,Molina D,Elston DM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transepithelial elimination is a process by which dermal materials are expelled through an active epithelial-dermal connective tissue interaction. It has been described as a regular or sporadic occurrence in a variety of dermatologic conditions, including sarcoidosis. OBSERVATION:Our patient demonstrated a ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Ismail A,Beckum K,McKay K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desmoplastic melanoma can be difficult to distinguish from desmoplastic melanocytic nevi both clinically and histopathologically. Several attempts have been made to explore the use of ancillary studies to facilitate this distinction. Prior work has suggested that immunohistochemical expression of p16 could help distin...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Blokhin E,Pulitzer M,Busam KJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cutaneous lymphatic malformations represent a group of heterogeneous diseases caused by developmental defects of lymphatic system. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to report the clinical, histopathological and immunohistochemical features of a distinctive lymphatic malformation. METHODS:Twelve patie...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Wang L,Gao T,Wang G

更新日期：2013-07-01 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:Recently, an intriguing concept was introduced into the literature that defines the area underlying the nail bed as a specific mesenchymal substructure unique to the nail organ. It has been termed onychodermis. The onychodermis expresses CD10 with remarkable specificity. Herein, we compare adult and fetal hu...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Sellheyer K,Nelson P

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleomorphic fibromas represent dome-shaped or polypoid cutaneous lesions characterized by a paucicellular and densely fibrotic background punctuated by scattered atypical to pleomorphic spindle and multinucleated giant cells. Some of these tumors will have incorporated adipose tissue, although these adipocytic areas l...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Al-Zaid T,Wang WL,Lopez-Terrada D,Lev D,Hornick JL,Hafeez Diwan A,Fletcher CD,Lazar AJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：: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