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Histopathology Flashcards

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Atypical fibroxanthoma

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Dermal spindle cell tumour
Stains: CD10, CD68
Deep= pleomorphic dermal sarcoma

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Spindle cell tumours

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  • Spindle cell melanoma
  • Spindle cell SCC
  • AFX/PDS
  • Other sarcomas:
    E.g. Leimyosarcoma (fasicular appearance); dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans; angiosarcoma
  • If benign: dermatofibroma, neurofibroma (wavy appearance; mast cells), leiomyoma (cigar cells)
  • Scar

Markers:
SCC: cytokeratin stains
Smooth muscle: SMA, desmin, caldesmon
Vascular: CD31, CD34, ERG

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Granulomatous processes

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  • Granuloma annulare
  • Rheumatoid nodule
  • Necrobiosis lipoidica
  • Foreign body reaction
  • Infection
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Stains for granulomatous histo (for infection)

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  • PAS (Periodic Acid Schiff stain) or GMS (Grocott’s methenamine silver)
  • Ziehl Neelson or Wade Fite stain
  • Gram stain
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Stains for melanocytes

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SOX 10 - negative in histiocytes
S100 - can also stain positive histiocytes/dendritic cells
Melan-A
PRAME
HMB-45

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Stains for SCC

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AE1/AE3 (PCK-pancytokeratin)
Cytokeratin MNF116
CK56
P40, P63

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Keratin-filled cysts

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Epidermoid cyst - keratin more laminated
Dermoid cyst
Trichilemmal (pilar) cyst (missing granular layer) - keratin more compact
Pilomatricoma
Cystic SCC
Skin adnexal tumours e.g. poroma (less cystic)
Steatocystoma - sebaceous lobules in cyst wall, wavy keratin, absent granular layer, contains sparse keratin and sebaceous material

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Trichoepithelioma

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Blue cell tumours

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BCC
Melanoma
Merkel cell/neuroendocrine
Lymphoma
Metastasis
Basaloid SCC

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Merkel Cell Stain

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Perinuclear dotting staining AE1/AE3
CD56
Chromogranin
Synaptophysin
CK20 - perinuclear dottiing
Poliomavirus stain

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Syringoma

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Nests, cords, ductular structures (containing pink amorphous material), can be like tadpoles/comma shapes
Ddx: trichoepithelioma, BCC, microcystic adnexal carcinoma

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Stains for DF vs DFSP

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DF: 13A, CD10
DFSP: CD34

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Blue naevus

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Spindle cells
Dense pigment
Granular melanin
Well circumscribed

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SCC in situ

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No maturation of keratinocytes in epidermis (just as large on top as on bottom of epidermis)
Mitoses
Nuclear pleomorphism
Upper dermal lichenoid inflammation

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Neurofibroma

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Spindle cell tumour
Mast cells
S100 positive (patchy)
CD34 positive (swirling pattern)
SMA negative (just staining blood vessels)
Can be polypoid

Ddx:
Palisaded and encapsulated neuroma
Schwannoma

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herpes inclusions

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multinucleation
moulding
margination

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Stains for BCC

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BerEp4

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Trichilemomma

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Clear cells (follicular epithelial cells)
Well circumscribed, symmetrical
Associations: Cowdens (PTEN mutation, also a/w breast, thyroid, GI ca)

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Eccrine spiradenoma

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Lesions that are painful

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Blend an egg

Blue rubber bleb
Leimyoma
Eccrine spiradenoma
Neuroma
Dermatofibroma
Angiolipoma
Neurilemomma
Endometriosis
Granular cell tumour
Glomus tumour

Schwannomas
Angiolipomas
Glomus tumours
Granular cell tumours
Tufted angiomas
Leiomyomas

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Keratoacanthoma (wdSCC, keratoacanthoma type)

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Invagination of epidermis with colarette
Keratin-filled crater
Atypical squamous epithelium with pale glassy appearance cytoplasm, often down to deep dermis
Neutrophil collections

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Solar keratosis

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Atypia along basal layer
Thinning of granular layer
Parakeratosis, hyperkeratosis

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Amyloid stain

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Crystal violet (magenta, metachromatic staining)
Congo red

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Difference between sebaceoma and sebaceous adenoma

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Sebaceoma - >50% basaloid cells
Sebaceous adenoma - <50% basaloid cells (basaloid cells at periphery, with sebaceous cells centrally)
Sebaceous carcinoma - more invasive, atypical mitoses, pleomorphism

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Deep penetrating naevus stain (to differentiate from blue naevus)

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Beta catenin

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Stain for PEIN

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Muir Torre Stains/Mutations

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MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2 (loss of)

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Peripheral nerve sheath tumours

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SOX10, S100 positive
Melan-A negative

Schwanomma - encapsulated, verocay bodies
Neurofibroma - circumscribed but not encapsulated

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Ductal lumen stains

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Ddx for syringoma

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Desmoplastic trichoepithelioma
Microcystic adnexal carcinoma

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Poroma

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Growth of terminal duct cells
Circumscribed
Compact cuboidal keratinocytes, small monomorphous nuclei, scant eosinophilic cytoplasm

Stain: CEA positive

Ddx: seb k, porocarcinoma

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Spiradenoma

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Lobulated, circumscribed
Two types of basaloid cells - smaller palisaded at peripheries; adjacent larger spaced out basaloid cells
Scattered lymphoyctes
Cystic change/cyst like degeneration

Ddx: cylindroma, spiradenocarcinoma

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Cylindroma

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Two cell types, same as spiradenoma (smaller basaloid cells palisaded at peripheries; adjacent larger spaced out)
Occasional scattered lymphocyte superimposed
Duct formation
Jigsaw puzzle appearance

Ddx: spiradneoma

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Hidradenoma papilliferum

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Finger-like projections (papillary growth), apocrine differentiation, cuboidal columnar epithelium lining ducts, duct formation (maze-like)

ddx: syringocystadenoma papilliferum (plasma cells)
tubular apocrine adenoma (more simple arrangement of glands, less maze-like)

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Hidradenoma

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Clear cells, poroid cells, squamous cells, mucin
Duct formation
Sclerotic stroma

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Xanthogranuloma

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Spindle cells
Xanthomatisation
Touton giant cells
Superimposed lymphocytes, eosinophils
Stain: CD68 or CD163

Ddx: dermatofibroma

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Granuloma faciale

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Dense polymorphous dermal infiltrate (plasma cells, neutrophils, lymphocytes)
Perivascular accentuation, sometimes vascular damage
Red cell extravasation
Sweeping bands fibrosis
Grenz zone

Ddx: EED, Sweets

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Langherans cell stains/markers

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CD1A, langerin

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Langerhans cells

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Abundant pale eosinophilic cytoplasm
Footprint nucleus
Can get multiple nuclei

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Warty dyskeratoma

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Grains and corp ronds
Acantholysis and clefting
Acanthylotic dyskeratosis
Reticulated areas

ddx: Acontholytic dyskeratotic acanthoma

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Spindle cell lipoma

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Sharp demarcation, well circumscribed
Adipocytes
No septae
Mucin/myxoid change n stroma
Spindle cells
Scattered mast cells
Ropey collagen

CD34 will stain spindle cells

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Angiolipoma

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Uniform adipocytes
Small closely packed vessels, particularly peripherally

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Naevoid melanoma - stains to help differentiate naevus and melanoma

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KI67 - melanocytic proliferation
hmb45 (+ve in melanoma, -ve in naevi)
p16 (-ve in melanoma, +ve in naevi)
Beta catenin more diffusely positive in deep penetrating naevus than in melanoma

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Glomus tumour

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Basaloid cells - concentric surrounding vessels
Bland monotonous benign tumour of basaloid cells
Positive for smooth muscle actin
Negative for desmin

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Glomangiomyoma

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Circumscribed
Some spindle cells
Some smooth muscle differentiation
Vascular

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Granuloma annulare

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Interstitial infiltrate - histiocytes, somewhat circumscribed

Stain: alcian blue or colloidal iron for mucin

Ddx: NLD - less spared normal dermal collagen, more diffuse, less circumscribed, no mucin
Interstitial granulomatous dermatitis - also less circumscribed, more diffuse, more neutrophils

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Types of dermatofibroma

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Aneurysmal
Cellular
Atypical
Lipidised
Fibrocollagenous
Clear cell
Epithelioid
Haemosiderotic
Deep fibrous histiocytoma

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Stains for melanin v haemosiderin

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Schmorl’s stain - melanin
Prussian blue - haemosiderin

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Xanthelasma

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Xanthomatised histiocytes
CD68 CD163

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Trichoblastoma

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Most commonly associated with sebaceous naevus

Prominent cellular stromal component
Predominantly basaloid epithelial cells in nests with peripheral palisading
May show cribriform, rippled or solid patterns

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Calcium stain

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Elastin stain

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Verhoeff’s stain VVG

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Elastosis perforans serpiginosa

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Lymphoma stains

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CD45 - Bs and Ts
CD3 - T cells
CD20 - B cells

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Lung met

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