10
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Melanocytic pathology

Non‐melanocytic lesions mimicking melanocytic lesions

Pages 387-395 | Received 11 Apr 2004, Accepted 20 Jun 2004, Published online: 06 Jul 2009

References

  • Kuo TT, Chan HL, Hsueh S. Clear cell papulosis of the skin. A new entity with histogenetic implications for cutaneos Paget's disease. Am J Surg Pathol 1987; 11: 827–34.
  • Kuo TT, Huang CL, Chan HL, et al. Clear cell papulosis: report of three cases of a recognized disease. J Am Acad Dermatol 1995; 33: 230–3.
  • Kim YC, Bang D, Cin YW. Clear cell papulosis: case report and literature review. Pediatr Dermatol 1998; 15: 328–9.
  • Lee JY, Chao SC. Clear cell papulosis of the skin. Br J Dermatol 1998; 138: 678–83.
  • Mohanty SK, Arora R, Kakkar N, et al. Clear cell papulosis of the skin. Ann Diagn Pathol 2002; 6: 385–8.
  • Garijo MF, Val D, Val-Bernal JF. Pagetoid dyskeratosis of the lips. Am J Dermatopathol 2001; 23: 329–33.
  • Val-Bernal JF, Pinto J. Pagetoid dyskeratosis is a frequent incidental finding in hemorrhoidal disease. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2001; 125: 1058–62.
  • Val-Bernal JF, Pinto J, Garijo MF, et al. Pagetoid dyskeratosis of the cervix: an incidental histologic finding in uterine prolapse. Am J Surg Pathol 2000; 24: 1518–23.
  • James MP, Wells GC, Whimster IW. Spreading pigmented actinic keratoses. Br J Dermatol 1978; 98: 373–9.
  • Subrt P, Jorizzo JL, Apisarnthanarax P, et al. Spreading pigmented actinic keratosis. J Am Acad Dermatol 1983; 8: 63–7.
  • Dinehart SM, Sanchez RL. Spreading pigmented actinic keratosis. An electron microscopic study. Arch Dermatol 1988; 124: 680–3.
  • Krishnan R, Lewis A, Orengo IF, et al. Pigmented Bowen's disease (squamous cell carcinoma in situ: a mimic of malignant melanoma). Dermatol Surg 2001; 27: 673–4.
  • Rosen L, Amazon K, Frank B. Bowen's disease, Paget's disease, and malignant melanoma in situ. South Med J 1986; 79: 410–3.
  • Blobstein SH, Wolfin NS, Urmacher C, et al. Pagetoid Bowen's disease of the breast. Int J Dermatol 1986; 25: 381–2.
  • Papageorgiou PP, Koumarianou AA, Chu AC. Pigmented Bowen's disease. Br J Dermatol 1998; 138: 515–8.
  • Raju RR, Goldblum JR, Hart WR. Pagetoid squamous cell carcinoma in situ (pagetoid Bowen's disease) of the external genitalia. Int J Gynecol Pathol 2003; 22: 127–35.
  • Lloyd J, Flanagan AM. Mammary and extramammary Paget's disease. J Clin Pathol 2000; 53: 742–9.
  • Nakamura S, Ishida-Yamamoto A, Takahashi H, et al. Pigmented Paget's disease of the male breast: report of a case. Dermatology 2001; 202: 134–7.
  • Peison B, Benisch B. Paget's disease of the nipple simulating malignant melanoma in a black woman. Am J Dermatopathol 1985; 7: 165–9.
  • Chiba H, Kazama T, Takenouchi T, et al. Two cases of vulval pigmented extramammary Paget's disease: histochemical and immunohistochemical studies. Br J Dermatol 2000; 142: 1190–4.
  • Rayne SC, Santa Cruz DJ. Anaplastic Paget's disease. Am J Surg Pathol 1992; 16: 1085–91.
  • Goldblum JR, Hart WR. Vulvar Paget's disease: A clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 19 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 1997; 21: 1178–87.
  • Goldblum JR, Hart WR. Perianal Paget's disease: A histologic and immunohistochemical study of 11 cases with and without associated rectal adenocarcinoma. Am J Surg Pathol 1998; 22: 170–9.
  • Reed W, Oppedal BR, Eeglarsen T. Immunohistology is valuable in distinguishing between Paget's disease, Bowen's disease and superficial spreading malignant melanoma. Histopathology 1990; 16: 583–8.
  • Kohler S, Rouse RV, Smoller BR. The differential diagnosis of pagetoid cells in the epidermis. Mod Pathol 1998; 11: 79–92.
  • Bourlond A. Pigmented epidermotropic metastasis of a breast carcinoma. Dermatology 1994; 189: 46–9.
  • Requena L, Sanchez Yus E, Nunez C, et al. Epidermotropic metastatic breast carcinoma. Rare histopathologic variants mimicking melanoma and Paget's disease. Am J Dermatopathol 1996; 18: 385–95.
  • Kutzner H, Hugel H, Embacher G. Pigmented Paget's disease and pigmented breast cancer metastasis. Clinic and histologic simulation of malignant melanoma of the breast. Hautarzt 1992; 43: 28–31.
  • Requena L, Sangueza M, Sangueza OP, et al. Pigmented mammary Paget disease and pigmented epidermotropic metastases from breast carcinoma. Am J Dermatopathol 2002; 24: 189–98.
  • Gilham SL, Morrison RG, Hurt MA. Epidermotropic neuroendocrine carcinoma. Immunohistochemical differentiation from simulators, including malignant melanoma. J Cutan Pathol 1991; 18: 120–7.
  • Ansai S, Hashimoto H, Aoki T, et al. A histochemical and immunohistochemical study of extra-ocular sebaceous carcinoma. Histopathology 1993; 22: 127–33.
  • Bayer-Garner TB, Givens B, Smoller B. Immunohistochemical staining for androgen receptors. A sensitive marker of sebaceous differentia-tion. Am J Dermatopathol 1999; 21: 426–31.
  • Mandojana RM, Helwig EB. Localized epidermotropic reticulosis (Woringer-Kolopp disease). A clinicopathologic study of 15 new cases. J Am Acad Dermatol 1983; 8: 813–29.
  • Burns MK, Chan LS, Cooper KD. Woringer-Kolopp disease (localized pagetoid reticulosis) or unilesional mycosis fungoides? An analysis of eight cases with benign disease. Arch Dermatol 1995; 131: 325–9.
  • Berti E, Tomasini D, Vermeer MH, et al. Primary cutaneous CD8-positive epidermotropic cytotoxic T cell lymphoma. A distinct clinicopathological entity with an aggressive clinical behavior. Am J Pathol 1999; 155: 483–92.
  • Mielke V, Wolff HH, Winzer M, et al. Localized and disseminated pagetoid reticulosis. Diagnostic immunophenotypical findings. Arch Dermatol 1989; 125: 402–6.
  • Munn S, Chu AC. Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the skin. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 1998; 12: 269–86.
  • Esterly NB, Maurer HS, Gonzalez-Crussi F. Histiocytosis X: a seven year experience at a children's hospital. J Am Acad Dermatol 1985; 13: 481–96.
  • Jain S, Allen PW. Desmoplastic malignant melanoma and its variants. A study of 45 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 1989; 13: 358–73.
  • Robson A, Allen P, Hollowood K. S100 expression in cutaneous scars: a potential diagnostic pitfall in the diagnosis of desmoplastic melanoma. Histopathology 2001; 38: 135–40.
  • Chorny JA, Barr RJ. S100 positive spindle cells in scars: a diagnostic pitfall in the re-excision of desmoplastic melanoma. Am J Dermatopathol 2002; 24: 309–12.
  • Camisa C, Roberts W. Monsel solution tattooing. J Am Acad Dermatol 1983; 8: 753–4.
  • Wood C. Atypical reactions to Monsel's solution. Am J Dermatopathol 1981; 3: 97–99.
  • Olmstead PM, Lund HZ, Leonard DD. Monsel's solution: a histologic nuisance. J Am Acad Dermatol 1980; 3: 492–8.
  • Wood C, Severin GL. Unusual histiocytic reaction to Monsel's solution. Am J Dermatopathol 1980; 2: 261–4.
  • Glusac EJ, Barr RJ, Everett MA, et al. Epithelioid cell histiocytoma. A report of 10 cases including a new cellular variant. Am J Surg Pathol 1994; 18: 583–90.
  • Glusac EJ, McNiff JM. Epithelioid cell histiocytoma: a simulant of vascular and melanocytic neoplasms. Am J Dermatopathol 1999; 21: 1–7.
  • Busam KJ, Granter SR, Iversen K, et al. Immunohistochemical distinction of epithelioid histiocytic proliferations from epithelioid melanocytic nevi. Am J Dermatopathol 2000; 22: 237–41.
  • Sonoda T, Hashimoto H, Enjoji M. Juvenile xanthogranuloma. Clinicopathologic analysis and immunohistochemical study of 57 patients. Cancer 1985; 56: 2280–6.
  • Kraus MD, Haley JC, Ruiz R, et al. "Juvenile" xanthogranuloma: an immunophenotypic study with a reappraisal of histogenesis. Am J Dermatopathol 2001; 23: 104–11.
  • Busam KJ, Rosai J, Iversen K, et al. Xanthogranulomas with inconspicuous foam cells and giant cells mimicking malignant melanoma: a clinical, histologic and immunohistochemical study of three cases. Am J Surg Pathol 2000; 24: 864–9.
  • Barnhill RL, Mihm MC Jr. Cellular neurothekeoma. A distinctive variant of neurothekeoma mimicking nevomelanocytic tumors. Am J Surg Pathol 1990; 14: 113–20.
  • Calonje E, Wilson-Jones E, Smith NP, et al. Cellular `neuro-thekeoma': an epithelioid variant of pilar leiomyoma? Morphological and immunohistochemical analysis of a series. Histopathology 1992; 20: 397–404.
  • Busam KJ, Mentzel T, Colpaert C, et al. Atypical or worrisome features in cellular neurothekeoma: a study of 10 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 1998; 22: 1067–72.
  • Wang AR, May D, Bourne P, et al. PGP9.5: a marker for cellular neurothekeoma. Am J Surg Pathol 1999; 23: 1401–7.
  • Page RN, King R, Mihm MC Jr, Googe PB. Microphthalmia transcription factor and NKI/C3 expression in cellular neuro-thekeoma. Mod Pathol 2004; 17: 230–4.
  • Evans HL, Smith JL. Spindle cell squamous carcinomas and sarcoma-like tumors of the skin: a comparative study of 38 cases. Cancer 1980; 45: 2687–97.
  • Sigel JE, Skacel M, Bergfeld WF, et al. The utility of cytokeratin 5/6 in the recognition of cutaneous spindle cell squamous cell carcinoma. J Cutan Pathol 2001; 28: 520–4.
  • Dupree WB, Langloss JM, Weiss SW. Pigmented dermatofibrosar-coma protuberans (Bednar tumor). A pathologic, ultrastructural, and immunohistochemical study. Am J Surg Pathol 1985; 9: 630–9.
  • Fretzin DF, Helwig EB. Atypical fibroxanthoma of the skin. A clinicopathologic study of 140 cases. Cancer 1973; 31: 1541–52.
  • Calonje E, Wadden C, Wilson-Jones E, et al. Spindle-cell non-pleomorphic atypical fibroxanthoma: analysis of a series and delineation of a distinctive variant. Histopathology 1993; 22: 247–54.
  • Longacre TA, Smoller BR, Rouse RV. Atypical fibroxanthoma. Multiple immunohistologic profiles. Am J Surg Pathol 1993; 17: 1199–209.
  • Monteagudo C, Calduch L, Navarro S, et al. CD99 immunoreactivity in atypical fibroxanthoma: a common feature of diagnostic value. Am J Clin Pathol 2002; 117: 126–31.
  • Diaz-Cascajo C, Weyers W, Borghi S. Pigmented atypical fibro-xanthoma: a tumor that may be easily mistaken for malignant melanoma. Am J Dermatopathol 2003; 25: 1–5.
  • Fields JP, Helwig EB. Leiomyosarcoma of the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Cancer 1981; 47: 156–69.
  • Kaddu S, Beham A, Cerroni L, et al. Cutaneous leiomyosarcoma. Am J Surg Pathol 1997; 21: 979–87.
  • Diaz-Cascajo C, Borghi S, Weyers W. Desmoplastic leiomyosarcoma of the skin. Am J Dermatopathol 2000; 22: 251–5.
  • Swanson PE, Stanley MW, Scheithauer BW, et al. Primary cutaneous leiomyosarcoma. A histological and immunohistochemical study of 9 cases, with ultrastructural correlation. J Cutan Pathol 1988; 15: 129–41.
  • Ducatman BS, Scheithauer BW, Piepgras DG, et al. Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors. A clinicopathologic study of 120 cases. Cancer 1986; 57: 2006–21.
  • D'Agostino AN, Soule EH, Miller RH. Sarcomas of the peripheral nerves and somatic soft tissues associated with multiple neuro-fibromatosis (von Recklinghausen's disease). Cancer 1963; 16: 1015–27.
  • Ducatman BS, Scheihauer BW. Postirradiation neurofibrosarcoma. Cancer 1983; 51: 1028–33.
  • DiCarlo EF, Woodruff JM, Bansal M, et al. The purely epithelioid malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor. Am J Surg Pathol 1986; 10: 478–90.
  • Wick MR, Swanson PE, Scheithauer BW, et al. Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor. An immunohistochemical study of 62 cases. Am J Clin Pathol 1987; 87: 425–33.
  • King R, Busam K, Rosai J. Metastatic malignant melanoma resembling malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor: report of 16 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 1999; 23: 1499–505.
  • Marrogi AT, Hunt Si, Santa Cruz DJ. Cutaneous epithelioid angiosarcoma. Am J Dermatopathol 1990; 12: 350–6.
  • Prescott RJ, Banerjee SS, Eyden BP, et al. Cutaneous epi-thelioid angiosarcoma: a clinicopathological study of four cases. Histopathology 1994; 25: 421–9.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.