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Soft tissue mass, finger (398499)
Soft tissue mass, fingernew
Subtitle: Squamous cell carcinoma ?
Type:
Biopsy
Sender:
jakob
2011-12-20 18:05
INCTR - Pathology Anglophone Africa
11.5916
 
F   25
 
Clinic:   left  little  finger:   Pain  at  flexion  and  extension,  8  years.
 
Received:    2   skin-covered    gray-white    tissue    fragments.
 

 
Problem:   I hesitate  to make   a   diagnosis  of   a   squamous  cell   carcinoma  in   this  young   women  and   a history  of    8   years,  but  what   would  be    the   alternative ? In  addition      there  is  a   swelling of  the   axillary  lymph  nodes of  the  same  side:  "smear    shows     cytologic    features  of    malignant  round  cell  tumor  with   prominent  nucleoli  and  moderate   cytoplasm;  it looks    more    secondary    than  Hodgkin's  lymphoma".
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hurwitz
2011-12-20 22:02
Could you please upload the cytology of the lymph node.
jakob
2011-12-22 04:55
This cytology is not available, sorry.
kunze
2011-12-22 15:07
The clear cell component in the last image and the anastomosing strands of spindle-shaped atypical epithelial cells with an intimate connection to the epidermis and central nests of well differentiated squamous epithelium lead me to the diff. diagnosis of a malignant sweat gland tumor, especially a porocarcinoma, which corresponds better with the acral localisation and a long clinical history.
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