Ch. 5 - Sweat gland neoplasms Flashcards

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What is “focal decapitation secretion”?

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A hallmark of apocrine differentiation in sweat gland tumors

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What do “red” and “blue” sweat gland tumors differentiate towards?

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Red - Sweat duct

Blue - Secretory component

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Cylindroma (turban tumor)

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Islands of blue cells in a jigsaw-puzzle pattern outlined by a deeply eosinophilic basement membrane.

Inherited and multiple on the scalp.

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Spiradenoma

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Very large round islands of blue cells peppered with lymphocytes (tender). Can have eosinophilic hyaline droplets.

Sporadic and solitary.

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5
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Recite the mnemonic for tender skin tumors.

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BANGLE:

Blue rubber bleb nevus

Angiolipoma

Neuroma (neurilemmoma)

Glomus tumor

Leiomyoma

Eccrine spiradenoma

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Spiradenocarcinoma

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Atypia, mitoses, and necrosis arising in long-standing spiradenomas.

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Syringocystadenoma papilliferum (SPAP)

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Papillary lesion open to surface with decapitation secretion and plasma cells.

Can occur within nevus sebaceus.

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Hidradenoma papilliferum (HPAP)

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Blue papillary dermal nodule with branching cystic spaces and decapitation secretion.

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Papillary digital carcinoma

(+epidemiology)

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Blue tumor with papillary fronds and cystic changes. Atypia with mitoses and necrosis.

Usually involves the hands of young patients

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Mucinous carcinoma

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Islands of blue cells in a sea of mucin.

Can be primary in the skin or metastatic from breast or GI tract (looks identical).

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Syringoma

(+epidemiology)

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Paisley-pattern of ducts with ample pink cytoplasm in a dense sclerotic stroma.

Usually in asian women and children with Down’s syndrome.

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Clear cell syringoma

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Tadpole-shaped ducts with clear glycogenated cells in a dense sclerotic stroma.

Associated with diabetes mellitus.

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Microcystic adnexal carcinoma

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Deeply invasive biphasic pattern (sweat duct-like and pilar) with tadpole-shaped ducts and basaloid nests with pilar differentiation. Dense sclerotic stroma and lymphoid aggregates.

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Sclerosing weat duct carcinoma

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Monophasic variant of MAC with only the tadpole component in a sclerotic stroma with lymphoid aggregates.

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Hidrocystoma

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Simple cyst lined with cuboidal or columnar cells with decapitation secretion.

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Mixed tumor (chondroid syringoma)

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Sweat ducts with ample pink cytoplasm embedded in a mesenchymal stroma often with cartilaginous or bone formation.

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Small tubular type mixed tumor

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Small tubule sweat ucts with ample pink cytoplasm embedded in a mesenchymal stroma often with cartilaginous differentiation.

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Branching alveolar type

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Sweat ducts with a long, branching and alveolar pattern in a mesenchymal stroma often with cartilaginous differentiation.

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Malignant mixed tumor (malignant choroid syringoma)

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Sweat ducts with atypia, mitoses, and necrosis embedded in a mesenchymal stroma often with cartilaginous differentiation.

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Acrospiroma

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Cuboidal pink cells with a tendency towards clear cell degeneration with cuticle lined ducts.

(a large family of sweat gland tumors)

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Poroma

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Cuboidal cells with ample pink cytoplasm with cuticle-lined ducts. Connects to the epidermis and commonly found on the foot.

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Hidroacanthoma simplex

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Intraepidermal nests of cuboidal cells with ample pink cytoplasm resembling clonal seborrheic keratosis, but containing ducts.

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Dermal duct tumor

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Small dermal nodules of cuboidal cells with ample pink cytoplasm and cuticle-lined ducts.

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Nodular hidradenoma

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Large dermal nodule of cuboidal pink cells and cuticle-lined ducts with bright red zones of basement membrane zone reduplication.

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Clear cell hidradenoma

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Large dermal nodule with pink cuboidal cells with clear cell and cystic degeneration and red ones of BMZ reduplication around vessels.

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Malignant acrospiroma (porocarcinoma)

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Invasive pink cuboidal cells with atypia, mitoses, and necrosis, with cuticle-lined ducts.

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Syringofibroadenoma of Mascaro

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A usually reactive lesion with parallel or anastomosing ducts in a fibromyxoid stroma.

Associated with hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia and Schopf syndrome.

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Papillary “eccrine” adenoma (tubular apocrine adenoma)

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Dilated duct-like spaces with blue papillary projections. Has differentiation towards both secretory segmenet and duct.

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Adenoid cystic carcinoma

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Cribriform and tubular glands with variable atypia and mitoses.

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Eccrine angiomatous hamartoma

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Collection of mature sweat glands and vessels presenting in children.

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Cylindroma

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Spiradenoma

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Spiradenocarcinoma

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Syringocystadenoma papilliferum

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Hidradenoma papilliferum

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Papillary digital carcinoma

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Mucinous carcinoma

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Syringoma

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Clear cell syringoma

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Microcystic adnexal carcinoma

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Sclerosing sweat duct carcinoma

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Hidrocystoma

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Mixed tumor, small tubular type

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Mixed tumor, branching alveolar type

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Malignant mixed tumor

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Hybrid acrospiroma

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Poroma

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Hidroacanthoma simplex

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Dermal duct tumor

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Nodular hidradenoma

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Clear cell hidradenoma

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Malignant acrospiroma

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Syringofibroadenoma of Mascaro, neoplastic type

54
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Papillary “eccrine” adenoma

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Adenoid cystic carcinoma

56
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Eccrine angiomatous hamartoma