abstract：:Neutrophilic panniculitis is an infrequent entity, considered by most authors as part of the 'neutrophilic dermatosis' spectrum. Few cases have been reported to be related with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF); we report a case of neutrophilic panniculitis and Sweet's syndrome lesions related with pegfilg...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Llamas-Velasco M,García-Martín P,Sánchez-Pérez J,Fraga J,García-Diez A

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Carcinoma cuniculatum and verrucous carcinoma are both very well differentiated forms of squamous carcinoma and thus difficult to separate histologically from pseudocarcinomatous hyperplasia. The diagnosis of each often requires clinical-pathologic correlation. METHODS:We reviewed the literature on cases re...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kubik MJ,Rhatigan RM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of a 64-year-old man with refractory acute myeloid leukemia and trisomy 8 who developed leukemia cutis. Interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was performed on a paraffin-embedded skin section. FISH confirmed a population of cells with trisomy 8 in the blastic infiltrates involving the ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Shvartsbeyn M,Meehan SM,Gu P,Nierodzik ML,Perle MA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rhabdomyosarcoma is a malignant mesenchymal tumor with skeletal muscle differentiation. Primary cutaneous rhabdomyosarcoma is rare. We report a series of 11 cases of primary cutaneous rhabdomyosarcoma. METHODS:Cases diagnosed as rhabdomyosarcoma arising in the dermis/subcutis with no identified primary tumo...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Marburger TB,Gardner JM,Prieto VG,Billings SD

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Latent infection by human papillomavirus (HPV) has been described for genital (mucosal) and epidermodysplasia verruciformis subtypes. Only rarely has cutaneotropic, non-oncogenic HPV been found by polymerase chain reaction studies in normal skin. METHODS:We noted myrmecia wart inclusions as an incidental hi...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Wititsuwannakul J,Ko CJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign lymphangioendothelioma is a rare locally infiltrative vascular neoplasm, presenting as a slow-growing, asymptomatic, reddish-violaceous plaque. Histopathologically, it is characterized by irregular and thin-walled vascular spaces, lined by a single and discontinuous layer of flat endothelial cells, dissecting d...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Revelles JM,Díaz JL,Angulo J,Santonja C,Kutzner H,Requena L

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:Accessory breast tissue is a subcutaneous remnant persisting after normal embryological development of the breast. It occurs most frequently in the axilla. Fibroadenomas in axillary breast tissue are rare. We report the case of a 29-year-old female patient who presented a fibroadenoma arising in the accessory breast t...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Val-Bernal JF,González-Vela MC,De Grado M,Garijo MF

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:Adenomyoepithelioma is a rare, microscopically distinctive tumor of the skin. This article explores an example that presented in the inguinal area in a 29-year-old woman, mimicking adenopathy. Histopathologically, the tumor included two different areas: a cystic area consisting of tubules and glands in hyalinized stro...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Sabater Marco V

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) is a lymphoid proliferation that develops as a complication of solid organ or bone marrow transplants. PTLD limited to the skin is very rare. Plasmacytoma-like PTLD is an uncommon variant of monomorphic PTLD. Its presentation in the skin is extraordinary with very fe...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Molina-Ruiz AM,Pulpillo A,Lasanta B,Zulueta T,Andrades R,Requena L

更新日期：2012-07-01 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

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：:Biologic therapies targeting tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha have become a mainstay in the management of a number of autoimmune diseases. We report a series of adverse skin eruptions in six patients (four females, two males, age: 21-58 years, mean: 39) receiving 4 months to 10 years (mean 3.1 years) of anti-TNF-alph...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Hawryluk EB,Linskey KR,Duncan LM,Nazarian RM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desmoplastic trichoepithelioma (DTE) is a benign follicular tumor occurring most commonly within facial skin of young and middle-aged women, morphologically characterized by a superficial dermal proliferation of basaloid cells growing in narrow strands embedded in a desmoplastic stroma associated with small keratinizi...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Jedrych J,Leffell D,McNiff JM

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Cutaneous leishmaniasis displays considerable variation in its histopathological and clinical presentation. Clinically, it progresses from a papule into a painless ulcerated and crusted nodule/papule. Microscopically, it progresses from sheets of amastigote-filled histiocytes to granulomatous inflammation. ...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Saab J,Fedda F,Khattab R,Yahya L,Loya A,Satti M,Kibbi AG,Houreih MA,Raslan W,El-Sabban M,Khalifeh I

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:In the past decades, the incidence of melanoma has been reported to rise in epidemic proportions. The chief reason for that pseudo-epidemic is improved criteria for diagnosis that allow melanomas to be recognized far more accurately and at earlier stages. The rising number of melanomas diagnosed has resulted in increa...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Weyers W

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxofibrosarcoma is one of the most common soft tissue sarcomas occurring in older adults. It can arise de novo or can be radiation induced, and the term myxofibrosarcoma was originally devised to encompass a spectrum of myxoid tumors with characteristics similar to malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH). Confusion exis...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Bandino JP,Norton SA,Aldrich SL,Wisco OJ,Hodson DS,Murchland MR,Grande DJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is often challenging to reliably assess the number of lesional melanocytes in intraepidermal melanocytic proliferations involving sun-damaged skin. Therefore, dermatopathologists routinely use immunostains to help differentiate melanocytes from surrounding keratinocytes. METHODS:Forty-three cases of sola...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Kim J,Taube JM,McCalmont TH,Glusac EJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloidosis cutis dyschromica represents a rare type of primary cutaneous amyloidosis with few reported cases worldwide. It is characterized by asymptomatic, generalized hyperpigmentation with intermingled hypopigmented macules without atrophy or telangiectasia. We report herein a 19-year-old female who developed this...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Garg T,Chander R,Jabeen M,Barara M,Mittal K,Jain M,Puri V

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verrucous hemangioma represents a rare congenital vascular proliferation that may be mistaken for angiokeratoma. Histopathological examination of a deep biopsy is necessary to confirm the diagnosis of verrucous hemangioma based on its involvement of the deep dermis and subcutaneous tissue. We present two cases of verr...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Clairwood MQ,Bruckner AL,Dadras SS

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although skin carcinogenesis has been widely investigated, only limited information is available for epidermal tumors, while even less is known about other skin structures. Alterations in the β-catenin pathway have been reported in several epidermal tumors, while little is known about in adnexal tumors. This...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Im M,Kim DH,Park JS,Chung H,Lee Y,Kim CD,Seo YJ,Lee JH

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometriosis is a condition where endometrial glands and stroma are ectopically located in sites other than the uterine cavity. Cutaneous endometriosis is very rare, representing approximately 1.1% of cases of extrapelvic endometriosis. We report a case of a 44-year-old female with no prior surgical history who prese...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Farooq U,Laureano AC,Miteva M,Elgart GW

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Cicatricial forms of alopecia, including lichen planopilaris (LPP) and discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE), may present with overlapping clinical features. In such cases, histopathological examination may provide key information for resolving the differential diagnosis. Optimally, microscopical analysis for al...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Nguyen JV,Hudacek K,Whitten JA,Rubin AI,Seykora JT

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although non-specific skin lesions are quite common in patients with leukemia, the specific infiltration of the skin by blast cells, known as leukemia cutis, is rare. Its incidence ranges from 1 to 50% and depends on the specific type of leukemia. Leukemic vasculitis represents a rare form of leukemia cutis consisting...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Cañueto J,Meseguer-Yebra C,Román-Curto C,Santos-Briz A,Fernández-López E,Fraile C,Unamuno P

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imiquimod (AldaraTM), a Toll-like receptor 7 agonist (TLR7), is known for its unique properties of being an immune response modifier and stimulator. Upon topical application, this TLR7 agonist triggers a cell-mediated immune response predominantly expressed by dendritic cells and monocytes. Local skin irritation at th...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Barr KL,Konia TH,Fung MA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main histopathological features in the cutaneous lesions of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) are dermal leukocytoclastic vasculitis with a variable eosinophilic infiltrate and non-vasculitic tissue eosinophilia with granuloma formation. This wide histopathological spectrum may account for the various skin manifestatio...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Ishibashi M,Kudo S,Yamamoto K,Shimai N,Chen KR

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (PDC) play a pivotal role in the induction of autoimmune diseases and other skin diseases. The present study focuses on the distribution patterns of PDC in patients with cutaneous lupus erythematosus (LE) and Jessner's lymphocytic infiltrate (LI) of the skin and compares them wit...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Tomasini D,Mentzel T,Hantschke M,Cerri A,Paredes B,Rütten A,Schärer L,Kutzner H

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune systemic disease characterized by small vessel involvement that leads to tissue ischemia and fibroblast stimulation resulting in accumulation of collagen (fibrosis) in the skin and internal organs. Lipomembranous panniculitis is a peculiar type of fat necrosis and has been rep...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Almeida MS,Lima SC,Carvalho LL,Almeida JV,Santos LG,Rolim JR,Rocha TE

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elastophagocytosis, or elastic fiber phagocytosis by multinucleate macrophages, has been observed in different skin conditions that may or may not occur on sun-exposed skin. Although loss of elastic fibers has been well documented in the homogenized papillary dermal zone in lichen sclerosus (LS), elastophago...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Abbas O,Chatrath V,Goldberg LJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The distinction of metastatic ovarian carcinoma from other metastatic carcinomas and primary adnexal lesions in the skin is often difficult. PAX8 is a transcription factor that plays a critical role in development of the Müllerian system and has been shown to be a useful discriminatory marker between ovarian...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Fujiwara M,Taube J,Sharma M,McCalmont TH,Kim J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Changes in the clinical appearance of benign dermal nevi during pregnancy may be concerning for malignant transformation. Because the hormonal milieu of pregnancy has not proven to alter their banal behavior, histologic characterization is needed to prevent over-diagnosis and unnecessary treatment. METHODS:...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Chan MP,Chan MM,Tahan SR

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:We report a rare case of multiple, co-exisitng verruciform xanthomas (VXs) of the anogenital region in the setting of cutaneous trauma. VX is a rare benign mucocutaneous neoplasm that typically presents as a solitary lesion with a predilection for the oral cavity, although extra-oral lesions have been reported involvi...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Cumberland L,Dana A,Resh B,Fitzpatrick J,Goldenberg G

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Co-lesional acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-associated cutaneous Kaposi sarcoma (AIDS-KS) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis-associated granulomatous inflammation are undocumented. METHOD:Retrospective appraisal of skin biopsies with co-lesional AIDS-KS and microscopic tuberculosis (TB). RESULTS:Sixteen bio...

journal_title：Journal of cutaneous pathology

authors： Ramdial PK,Sing Y,Subrayan S,Calonje E,Aboobaker J,Sydney C,Sookdeo D,Ramburan A,Madiba TE

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00