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Cutaneous Neoplasms Flashcards

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WHat are the relevant epithelial (epidermal) tumors?

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  • Seborrheic keratoses
  • actinic keratosis
  • squamous cell carcinoma
  • keratoacanthoma
  • basal cell carcinoma
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What is seborrheic keratosis/what does it look like? who gets it? where is it most common?

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  • very common cutaneous neoplasm
  • common in middle age or older patients
  • brown or tan waxy papules and plaques with a “stuck on” or warty appearance
  • most common on face, trunk, and upper extremeties
  • Leser-Trelat sign
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What is the Leser-Trelat sign?

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sudden onset of multiple seborrheic kertoses associated with internal malignancy (usually stomach cancer)

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what is visible on this histology slide?

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seborrheic keratoses

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What is actinic keratoses? what is it also known as? what is it a result of?

who gets it? what d they look like?

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  • aka solar keratosis
  • common lesiosn that develop as a result of chronic sundamage
  • predilection for sun-exposed areas
  • middle-age to elderly
  • red tan-brown macules with “gritty” sandpaper like scale
  • may regress or remain stable
  • .1-10% become malignant
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what is seen on this histology slide?

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Actinic Keratosis

retention of nuclei in the corneum and loss of granular layer. lower 1/3 of epidermis is very irregular.

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who gets squamous cell carinoma and what are predisposing factors?

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  • common neoplas in older individulas, 20% of all skin cancers
  • UV radiation is most common cause (DNA damage)
  • also chronic ulcers, old burn scars, HPV, radiation, arsenic, immunosuppression
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How does SCC in situ present? How does Invasice SCC present?

WHat is the risk of metastasis of insitu?

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  • SCC in situ presents as red scaly plaque
  • Invasive SCC lesions are nodular and may ulcerate
  • 5% of insitu become invasive, and risk of metastasis is 2-4%, but even higher if immunosuppressed
  • likelihood of metastasis is related to location and degree of invasion
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What is this?

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SCC in situ

full thikness (thicker) basal layer to top and you lose the granular layer

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what is this?

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Invasive SCC

no longer is contained to the epidermis it is almost down to the fat in this image

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What is a Keratoacanthoma? How does it grow? what causes it?

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  • variant of squamous cell carcinoma with pink papule or nodule with a central keratin plug
  • grows rapidly over 2-10 weeks
  • usually occurs due to sun damage and may resolve spontaneously, but treatment is usually advocated bc can cause extensive local destruction
  • in immunosuppresed patients, mulitple lesions may be present
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What is shown on this histology slide?

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Keratoacanthoma

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WHat is the most comon human cancer?

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Basal Cell Carcinoma

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What causes basal cell carcinoma? How does it grow? What is it associated with?

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  • secondary to chronic sun exposure/UV radiation
  • can be locally destructive, and is slow growing/rarely metastasizes
  • When it metastasizes, patient is often immunocompromised
  • associated with dysregulation of sonic hedgehog or PTCH pathway (30-40%)
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What do basal cell carcinomas look like?

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pink, pearly papules with prominent arborizing subepidermal blood vessels (telangiectasia). Ulceration and erosion are common

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What doe sit mean to say that a basal cell carcinoma has retracted?

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it broke away from surrounding stroma

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What are the common melanocyti tumors?

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  • melanocytic nevi
  • acquired melanocytic nevus
  • congenital melanocytic nevus
  • dysplastic nevi
  • melanoma
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Where are melanocytes usually seen and what do they increase with? WHat are the 3 classifications melanocytic nevi can be histologically?

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  • melanocytes are normally seen in epidermis, and increase with sun exposure (acquired nevi), also present aat birth (congenital nevi)
  • histologically melanocytic nevi can be:
    • junctional (dermal epidermal junction)
    • compound (epidermis and dermis)
    • intradermal (in dermis only)
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What do acquired melaocytic nevi usually look like?

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  • pink, tan or brown uniformly pigmented papules and macules
  • small (usually < .5cm) well-defined, smooth borders
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what classification is this melanocytic nevi?

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Junctional nevus: just in the epidermis, not in the dermis

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What classification is this acquired melanocytic nevus?

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intradermal

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what classification is this nevus?

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compound (epidermis and dermis)

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What does this lil babe have?

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A very large congenital melanocytic nevus

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What are displastic nevi?

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  • clinically and histologically distinctive
  • dysplastic nevi may occur sporadically or in a familial form
  • ppl with mulitpile dysplastic nevi have increased risk of melanoma
  • clinically, larger than acquired nevi (>.5cm), irregular in shpe and uneven color
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What is dysplastic nevus syndrome? What do they have an increased incidence of?

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  • familial or sporadic
  • large # of dysplastic nevi (80) or more
  • increased incidence of melanoma
  • familial variant is inherited as autosomal dominant (mutations CDKN2A gene 9p21-21 in 40% of cases)
  • patients can develop other malignancies (pancreatic carcinoma)
26
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Compare and contrast sporadic dysplastic nevi syndorme and familial dysplastic nevi syndrome

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  • sporadic
    • lower number of dysplasti nevi (usually 2-10)
    • lifetime risk of melanoma in the sporadic form is approximately 10%
  • Familial
    • hundreds of dysplastic nevi
    • lifetime risk of melanoma approaches 100%

****note, they have identical histological features****

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What do dysplastic nevi often resemble

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melanoma

28
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Dysplastic nevi may be ______ or ______

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junctional or compound

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What are the histological features of Dysplastic nevi?

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  • lentiginous hyperplasia
  • irregular nests
  • briding of rete ridges
  • cytologic atyia
  • lamellar fibroplasia of capillary dermis
  • inflammatory response
30
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Who typically gets melanoma and where on the body is it most common?

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more common in white population, affects men and women equally, typically a disease of adulthood and most common eon back in men and on legs in women

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What are the risk factos for melanoma?

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  • Multifactorial disease
  • UVexposure at early age (more important risk factor)
  • fair complexion and older age
  • dysplastic nevus syndrome
  • history of melanoma in the family
  • tanning bed use
  • xeroderma pigmentosum
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What are the clinical features of melanoma?

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ABCDEs

A=Assymetry

B= Borders (notched, uneven or blurred)

C= Color (uneven; shades of brown, tan, red, and black may be present. 3 or more colos)

D= diameter (>6mm)

E=eveolving-change in color andn size of the lesion

33
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Why is it important to recognize melanoma ealy? and what ae the 2 growth phases?

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  • early/superficial melanomas are cured surgically
  • Radial growth phase: melanocytes will proliferate within the epidermis (in situ) NO metastatic potential
  • Vertical growth phase: dermal invasion and potential for metastasis
    • ****extent of vertical growth phase determines the biologic behavior of melanomas****
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What is the most important prognostic indicator for melanoma?

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depth of invasion (Breslow thickness)

when <1mm rarley metastasize

when >1.7mm have greater otential to metastasize

35
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How do we measure invasion?

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Clark level

I Intraepidermal

II in papillary dermis

III Fills papillary dermis

IV Reticular dermis

IV Enters fat

36
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Besides level of invsion (clarks level) what are some indicators of metastatic potential for melanoma?

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ulceration, mitotic rate, angioinvasion

37
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What are the 4 type of melanoma?

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  • Supreficial spreading type
    • most common type (70%) located on trunk (men) legs (women)
  • Nodular type
    • NO radial growth phase, high vertical growth phase poor prognosis. men>women
  • Lentigo maligna type
    • most commonly located on the head and neck (sun exposed areas)
  • Acral lentiginous type
    • located on palm, sole, or beneath nail
    • most common type in African Americans (and other non-whites)
38
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What kind of melanoa is this?

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Lentigo type

39
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What kind of melanoma is this?

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Supeficial spreading type

40
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What kind of melanoma is this?

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Nodular type

41
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What kind of melanoma is this?

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Acral lentiginous type

42
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What are the cutaneous lymphomas?

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Mycosis fungoides

Sezary syndrome

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How does mycosis fungoides present? What are the 3 stages? When does it usually occur?

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  • most common cutaneous lymphoma
  • occurs in late adulthood with male predominance
  • usually presents as red or pink scaly patches
  • stages of patch, plaque and nodules
  • usually hronic course although may become aggressive
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What is Sezary syndrome? how does it present and what is the prognosis?

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  • blood involvement of T cell lymphoma
  • erythrodermaskin is diffusely red and scaly
  • poor prognosis
  • survival 1-3 years
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What do you see histologically for mycosis fungoides?

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infiltration of the epidermis and upper dermis b¥ neoplastic ˇ cells, which have often have a ceribriform nucleus characterized by marked infolding of the nuclear membrane

**cerebriform lymphocytes

**invasion of blood vessels

46
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besides CDKNA2 9p21 mutation what activatin gmutations are associated with melanoma?

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NRAS and BRAF

47
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what 2 new drugs arebeing used for melanoma and what do they target?

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vemurafenib-inhibit mutant BRAF

trametinib- influence the MEK pathway

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