AI Article Synopsis

  • Porocarcinoma (PC) is a rare skin tumor primarily affecting older adults, originating from sweat glands and associated with a high risk of metastasis.
  • Differentiating PC from squamous cell carcinoma can be challenging, but markers like NUT expression and YAP1 fusions aid in diagnosis.
  • Treatment typically involves wide local excision, with Mohs surgery as a potential alternative; systemic therapies like pembrolizumab show promise, but guidelines for lymph node biopsy and radiotherapy are lacking.

Article Abstract

Porocarcinoma (PC) is a rare adnexal tumor, mainly found in the elderly. The tumor arises from the acrosyringium of eccrine sweat glands. The risk of lymph node and distant metastasis is high. Differential diagnosis with squamous cell carcinoma is difficult, although NUT expression and YAP1 fusion products can be very useful for diagnosis. Currently, wide local excision is the main surgical treatment, although Mohs micrographic surgery is promising. To date, there is no consensus regarding the role of sentinel lymph node biopsy and consequential lymph node dissection. No guidelines exist for radiotherapy, which is mostly performed based on tumor characteristics and excision margins. Only a few studies report systemic treatment for advanced PC, although therapy with pembrolizumab and EGFR inhibitors show promise. In this review, we discuss epidemiology, clinical features, histopathological features, immunohistochemistry and fusion products, surgical management and survival outcomes according to stage, surgical management, radiotherapy and systemic therapy.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11172007PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms25115760DOI Listing

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