20 - 109 - APPENDAGE TUMORS OF THE SKIN Flashcards
ductal differentiation is most commonly observed in what type of appendage tumor
Eccrine Tumors
Eccrine Tumors
Apocrine Tumors
Follicular Tumors
Sebaceous Tumors
Genetic Syndromes Associated with Appendage Neoplasms
Eccrine Appendage Neoplasms
Hidradenoma is a solitary, indistinct dermal nodule
B, The tumor is a circumscribed, nonencapsulated, solid and cystic dermal neoplasm.
C, Hidradenoma is composed of clear cells and cells with ductal and glandular differentiation.
Eccrine poroma is an erythematous dermal nodule with an epidermal rim that often occurs on acral surfaces.
A, Cylindroma is a smooth, flesh-colored papule, often presenting on the head and neck
B, The tumor is a dermally based proliferation of islands of basaloid epithelium, arranged in a pattern similar to that seen in a jigsaw puzzle.
C, An eosinophilic zone of basement membrane material separates the interlocking nests of tumor cells. Within the tumor nests, central cells have vesicular nuclei and eosinophilic cytoplasm, while peripheral cells have round basophilic nuclei with scant cytoplasm.
Spiradenoma is a flesh-colored nodule
B, It is usually a multinodular nonencapsulated dermal tumor wherein the basaloid nodules resemble blue balls in the dermis.
C, The central tumor cells have vesicular nuclei and eosinophilic cytoplasm, and the peripheral cells have smaller, round, basophilic nuclei with scant cytoplasm.
Syringoma presents as multiple, small, flesh-colored papules, often in a periorbital distribution
B, The tumor is composed of a dermal proliferation of cords and nests of tumor cells in the upper dermis.
C, Small ductal structures are present in a sclerotic stroma forming tadpoleshaped and comma-shaped epithelial structures.
Summary of Immunohistochemical Stains in the Distinction between Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Select Appendage Neoplasms
A, Microcystic adnexal carcinoma is an infiltrative tumor composed of cords and cysts of varying sizes and shapes.
B, The tumor extends through the dermis to involve the subcutaneous fat.
C, Perineural invasion is often seen.
D, The tumor cells may be positive for CK7.
Apocrine Appendage Neoplasms
Hidrocystoma is a translucent papule, frequently seen in a periorbital distribution.
A, Syringocystadenoma papilliferum can present as a crusted verrucous plaque on the scalp.
B, Serous drainage is not an uncommon finding.
C, The tumor occurs as an invagination of papillomatous projections in the epidermis.
D, On the left side of this image a papillary projection is seen, composed of an inner layer of columnar epithelium with decapitation secretion and an outer layer of myoepithelial cells.
A, Hidradenoma papilliferum occurs as a well-circumscribed solid and cystic dermally based nodule, with interconnected glands that form labyrinthlike arrangements of tumor cells.
B, The projections are composed of cuboidal and columnar epithelium with decapitation secretion and a basal layer of myoepithelial cells.
A, Adenoid cystic carcinoma is composed of dermal islands of basaloid cells.
B, The tumor cells have a characteristic cribriform arrangement, with punched out pseudocysts filled with mucin.
C, The tumor cells usually stain positively for CD117 (cKIT).
A, Trichofolliculoma is characterized by numerous small hair follicles radiating from a central pore.
B, The follicles vary in stages of differentiation.
Classification of Follicular Appendage Neoplasms
Trichoblastoma present as red to flesh-colored dermal nodules, often on the face.
B, The tumor is a circumscribed dermal nodule composed predominantly of basaloid cells.
C, The basaloid epithelioid structures may resemble basal cell carcinoma; however, the characteristic mucin-containing clefts separating basal cell carcinoma from the stroma are not a feature of trichoblastoma.
A, Trichoepithelioma is a well-circumscribed, superficial, dermal tumor.
B, The tumor is composed of basaloid germinative epithelial cells that form papillary mesenchymal bodies, which are composed of a cup-shaped arrangement of basaloid epithelium with a central cellular fibroblastic core.
C, In tumors with a predominance of basaloid cells the differential diagnosis includes basal cell carcinoma. D, CK20+ Merkel cells are often present.
A, Fibrofolliculoma is composed of pilar and stromal elements.
B, Irregularly shaped follicles with delicate fronds extend into a densely fibrotic perifollicular stroma.
Pilomatricoma is a circumscribed dermal nodule
(B) peripheral nucleated basaloid cells and central eosinophilic shadow cells (ghost cells).
C, The basaloid cells have round nuclei resembling pilar matrical cells, whereas shadow cells are composed of eosinophilic cellular material with a faint outline of nuclear membrane.
D, In some cases basaloid cells are inconspicuous and there is prominent calcification, in which event, the tumor also has been known as calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe.