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Case Number : Case 1948 - 16 Nov 2017 Posted By: Iskander H. Chaudhry

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65 year old, female: C+C right third toe.
?P.G. ?Malignancy. 12 year history.

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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Thinking epithelioid hemangioendothelioma?

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vincenzo polizzi

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Atypical glomus tumor is my first thought. Second one is epithelioid perineurioma.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Tricky. I wondered about epithelioid cell histiocytoma, PECOMA, epithelioid angiomatous nodule or epithelioid H.E. Like suggestion of glomus - I was wondering about a perivascular type tumour and it also crossed my mind. Needs IHC!

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Don't really appreciate cytoplasmic lumen or red blood cells commonly in vascular lesions. Epithelioid histiocytoma?

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Admin_Dermpath

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Dr Chaudhry's response: 

 

The tumour is negative for S100, p63, EMA, Desmin and AE1AE3. Before I disclose the final immuno results what is your preferred diagnosis? 

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Raul Perret

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I was wondering about ALK-1 in this case too. Before answering I would have liked to see H-caldesmon, CD34, ERG, and ki67. For me this is not the expected morphology of Glomus tumor. Without any immunos my first hypothesis would have been epithelioid fibrous hystiocytoma.

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Arti Bakshi

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Epithelioid fibrous histiocytoma vs epithelioid angiomatous nodule, favouring latter.

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Just wonder how much controversy such tumours must have created in the pre- immunostaining days! 

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vincenzo polizzi

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In the preimmunoAge many entities as CEAN ECH PECOMA didn’t exist...:-))

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Even usual conditions created controversy. Remember"The Final Diagnosis" by Arthur Hailey?

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vincenzo polizzi

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Yes off course...pathology is the Controversy Science...and the disputes have not been settled by new Ancillary technologies as 

Immuno and Molecular but, if possible, incremented.

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Nitin Khirwadkar

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Epithelioid fibrous histiocytoma vs epithelioid CEAN vs glomus. ALK, SMA, ERG.

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Admin_Dermpath

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Dr Chaudhry's comments:

Please see the additional immuno!  The tumour is negative for CD10, CD31, Scattered CD68 + cells and low proliferation index for Ki67. 

So the final diagnosis is ........

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Very difficult to make sense of the immunohistochemical staining pattern. Most glomus tumors are negative for CD34. But rarely glomus tumors can be positive for CD34 (CD34-positive glomus tumor). That's my best interpretation of this case. But I have never seen one before.

CD34-positive glomus tumor: clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical analysis of six cases with myxoid stromal changes.

Mentzel T, Hügel H, Kutzner H.

J Cutan Pathol. 2002 Aug;29(7):421-5

 

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vincenzo polizzi

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Expression of CD34 in glomus tumors.

Hatori M, et al. Tohoku J Exp Med. 1997.

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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CD34 positive Glomus sounds good idea!

 

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Admin_Dermpath

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Dr Chaudhry : Final diagnosis

CD34-positive glomus tumour

Many thanks for the excellent discussion points 

 

 

 

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