Publications by authors named "Scott Bresler"

Nursing students exposed to bullying behaviors are at risk for making medication errors. For a quasi-experimental study, 15 prelicensure nursing students at a Midwestern university were exposed to simulated bullying behaviors or common distractions while administering medications in a laboratory setting. Data were analyzed using Kruskal-Wallis tests.

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Context.—: Patients with melanoma can develop second tumors representing either metastases or new primary melanoma. This distinction has profound implications for management.

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Introduction: Workplace violence (WPV) is a common experience among healthcare workers in the United States. Although WPV may affect workers physically, WPV can also affect workers' mental health. Emergency department (ED) workers' perceptions of available and necessary WPV support have not been previously reported.

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  • The study focuses on vulvar acantholytic dyskeratoses, which are rare skin conditions affecting the vulva and perineum, with a goal to improve classification and understanding for gynecologic pathologists.
  • Between 1990 and 2023, 16 cases of vulvar acantholytic dyskeratoses were analyzed, mostly affecting women aged 36 to 79, with many presenting asymptomatic or pruritic lesions predominantly on the labia majora.
  • Histologically, these conditions showed features like acantholysis, with some patients responding to local excision or corticosteroids; however, no clear distinction was found between sporadic and syndromic cases based on
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  • Pleomorphic dermal sarcoma (PDS) is a rare skin tumor with similarities to atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX), but exhibits more aggressive traits.
  • PDS tends to invade deeper tissues, leading to higher risks of metastasis and local recurrence compared to AFX.
  • The review emphasizes the importance of early detection and treatment to improve patient outcomes, while summarizing the tumor's features, prognosis, and management options.
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Introduction: Although many individual cases and small series of toxic erythema of chemotherapy (TEC) have been described, the full spectrum of findings is not well understood.

Objective: To provide a comprehensive review of the clinical and histopathologic features of TEC with an emphasis on novel histopathologic findings.

Methods: We searched our electronic medical record for "toxic erythema of chemotherapy" or "neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis.

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Subcutaneous leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a rare, poorly understood variant. The current literature on the subject is sparse, consisting of isolated case reports and small clinicopathologic studies compromised by the inclusion of both its more common and indolent counterpart, cutaneous LMS (atypical intradermal smooth muscle neoplasm), as well as highly aggressive deep-seated tumors. Thus, precise clinicopathologic characterization is limited.

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Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common human malignancy and is a leading cause of nonmelanoma skin cancer-related morbidity. BCC has several histologic mimics which may have treatment and prognostic implications. Furthermore, BCC may show alternative differentiation toward a variety of cutaneous structures.

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Context.—: Hypertrophic lichen planus (HLP) is a variant of lichen planus that can be difficult to diagnose based on histopathologic features alone. Thus, patient clinical history and clinicopathologic correlation are essential considerations to make the correct diagnosis.

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  • Cutaneous vascular tumors are a diverse group of skin growths that can be difficult to diagnose due to their similar appearance and features.
  • Advances in research have led to better classification and understanding of these tumors, especially through efforts by the International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies (ISSVA).
  • This review article summarizes the updated information on the clinical, histopathological, and immunohistochemical traits of various cutaneous vascular tumors, as well as the genetic mutations linked to them.
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Gastroblastoma is an extremely rare biphasic tumor that typically occurs in the stomach in patients between the ages of 10 and 30. Only 16 cases have been reported previously. These tumors are important to diagnose and distinguish from more aggressive neoplasms; although numbers are small, prognosis appears excellent overall with complete excision, with only occasional metastasis and/or local recurrence.

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Mesenchymal tumours with melanocytic expression can pose a diagnostic challenge because they frequently demonstrate both morphological and immunohistochemical overlap with other cutaneous melanocytic neoplasms. Therefore, they present potential pathological pitfalls that may lead to a misdiagnosis of malignant melanoma. Mesenchymal neoplasms that closely mimic melanoma include malignant melanotic nerve sheath tumour (melanotic schwannoma), epithelioid schwannoma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath, cutaneous syncytial myoepithelioma, clear cell sarcoma of soft tissue, and perivascular epithelioid cell tumour.

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Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is a common skin cancer caused by deregulated hedgehog signaling. BCC is often curable surgically; however, for orbital and periocular BCCs (opBCC), surgical excision may put visual function at risk. Our recent clinical trial highlighted the utility of vismodegib for preserving visual organs in opBCC patients: 67% of patients displayed a complete response histologically.

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  • - COVID-19 infection and vaccination can lead to various skin and immune reactions, with some cases resembling lymphoma.
  • - Two patients with skin issues post-vaccination exhibited abnormal T-cell infiltration, with one improving and the other worsening after a subsequent COVID-19 infection.
  • - The findings suggest that the immune response from the vaccine or infection might trigger lymphoma in individuals predisposed to such disorders, highlighting the difficulty in distinguishing these cases from non-cancerous reactions.
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Diagnosis of spindle cell/sarcomatoid melanoma may be challenging due to frequent loss of expression of melanocytic marker(s) and histomorphologic resemblance to various mesenchymal tumours, particularly malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour (MPNST). Overexpression of PReferentially expressed Antigen in MElanoma (PRAME) supports a diagnosis of melanoma when evaluating challenging melanocytic tumours. PRAME expression in MPNST and other cutaneous sarcomatoid neoplasms, however, has not been well characterised.

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A 58-year-old man presented with a lesion on the nose suspicious for basal cell carcinoma. An initial biopsy specimen reviewed at an outside institution showed a cytologically atypical spindle cell proliferation that lacked expression of cytokeratins or melanocytic markers. The resulting differential diagnosis included atypical fibroxanthoma and pleomorphic dermal sarcoma.

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Conjunctival melanocytic proliferations are diagnostically challenging, often complicated by small specimen size, and are separated into 3 broad categories. The first group includes benign nevi and primary acquired melanosis (PAM) without atypia. The second group includes junctional melanocytic proliferations with a risk of progression to invasive melanoma (PAM with atypia).

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Preferentially expressed antigen in melanoma (PRAME) is an immunohistochemical biomarker that is diffusely expressed in most cutaneous melanomas and is negative in most benign nevi. Histologically challenging dermal melanocytic neoplasms, such as cellular blue nevi (CBN) and deep penetrating nevi (DPN), and soft tissue tumors with melanocytic differentiation, such as clear cell sarcoma and perivascular epithelioid cell tumor, may resemble primary or metastatic melanoma. PRAME immunohistochemistry (IHC) was applied to archived formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded specimens of various dermal melanocytic neoplasms and soft tissue neoplasms with melanocytic differentiation.

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Context.—: Conjunctival melanocytic lesions consist of a variety of neoplastic and nonneoplastic conditions. These include benign processes such as primary intraepithelial hypermelanosis and melanocytic hyperplasia, secondary forms of intraepithelial hypermelanosis and melanocytic hyperplasia, melanocytic nevi, melanocytic proliferations with malignant potential, and melanoma.

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