invisible or nearly invisible dermatopathologic diagnoses...epidermis/stratum corneum look carefully...
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Invisible or nearly invisible dermatopathologic diagnoses
Hafeez Diwan, MD, PhDBaylor College of Medicine
Disclosures
Nothing to discloseNo conflicts of interest
Categorization of invisibility
Invisible because it is there but subtleInvisible because it is something else
Epidermis/Stratum corneum
Epidermis/Stratum Corneum
Fungus – Tinea
SANDWICH SIGN
PAS POSITIVE FUNGI
44 year-old female with mole on right foot
Epidermis/Stratum Corneum
Fungus – TineaErythrasma – Corynebacterium minutissimumGranular parakeratosis
HISTORY
The patient is 43-year-old pregnant female who presented with a few deeply pigmented macules on the left sole.
ADDITIONAL HISTORYPatient had been tarring driveway with her husband but didn’t think she had been exposed to the material.
Epidermis/Stratum Corneum
Fungus – TineaErythrasma – Corynebacterium minutissimumGranular parakeratosisExogenous pigment
Epidermis/Stratum Corneum
Fungus – TineaErythrasma – Corynebacterium minutissimumGranular parakeratosisExogenous pigmentCD8-positive (hypopigmented) mycosis fungoides
Mid-back biopsy from a baby
The quality of the keratin
Ichthyosis
Epidermis/Stratum corneum
Look carefullyIf you don’t see anything, do a GMS or PAS stainLook for the sandwich signLook at the granular layer (especially if the biopsy is from the axilla)Look at the quality of the keratin
Dermis
Lichen amyloid
Dermis
Lichen amyloidMacular amyloid
Dermis
Lichen amyloidUrticaria
Dermis
Lichen amyloidUrticariaUrticaria pigmentosa (mastocytosis)
Telangiectasia macularis eruptiva perstans (TMEP) – another mastocytosis
Stains for mast cells: Giemsa, Toluidine blue, CD117, mast cell tryptase
Dermis
Lichen amyloidUrticariaUrticaria pigmentosa (mastocytosis)Nodular amyloid
Dermis
Lichen amyloidUrticariaUrticaria pigmentosa (mastocytosis)Nodular amyloidNevus of Ota
Dermis
Lichen amyloidUrticariaUrticaria pigmentosa (mastocytosis)Nodular amyloidNevus of OtaScleredema
Scleredema
Diabetics, post-infectious, or ?blood dyscrasiaIll-defined plaquesHistology – square biopsy, edemaMucin stain may be helpful
Dermis
Lichen amyloidUrticariaUrticaria pigmentosa (mastocytosis)Nodular amyloidNevus of OtaScleredemaAnetoderma
Dermis
Lichen amyloidUrticariaUrticaria pigmentosa (mastocytosis)Nodular amyloidNevus of OtaScleredemaAnetodermaConnective tissue nevus
Dermis
Lichen amyloidUrticariaUrticaria pigmentosa (mastocytosis)Nodular amyloidNevus of OtaScleredemaAnetodermaConnective tissue nevus/White fibrous papulosis of neck
Invisible because it is something else
CK7
Cam 5.2
Extramammary Paget disease
“Dark” Paget’s
Metastatic renal cell carcinoma
Keratin
Leishmaniasis mimicking squamous cell carcinoma
Kaposi sarcoma mimicking dermatofibroma
Kaposi sarcoma mimicking stasis
HISTORY
38 year-old female with lesions on tongue, foot and hands.Clinical impression: Lichen planus