Although the new World Health Organization-European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer classification focuses on providing uniformity in the diagnosis of cutaneous lymphomas, cutaneous peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTL) remains a poorly defined subgroup. As follow-up to a study of systemic PTL complicated by a proliferation of B cells, we studied 16 cases of cutaneous PTL that contained morphologically atypical T cells associated with a significant infiltrate of B cells (about 20%-50%). A clonal T-cell receptor gamma chain gene rearrangement was present in all cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
November 2008
We report the third case of eccrine syringofibroadenoma (ESFA) arising in peristomal skin. A 55-year-old man presented with a 15- x 10-cm pale pink verrucous, exophytic, intermittently tender plaque involving his ileostomy site. He had undergone proctocolectomy with ileostomy creation 33 years prior for ulcerative colitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Post-radiotherapy atypical vascular lesions (AVL) in mammary skin show significant clinical and histopathologic overlap with well-differentiated angiosarcoma (AS) and pose a considerable diagnostic and managerial challenge when encountered.
Objective: We review Stanford's experience with diagnosing AVL and formulate a clinicopathologic approach to these lesions.
Methods: We performed a clinicopathologic study on 11 cases that were initially diagnosed as AVL and examined whether there are specific clinical or histopathologic features that delineate AVLs from well-differentiated AS.