NEURAL, FAT AND FIBROUS TUMOR Flashcards
(36 cards)
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NEUROFIBROMA
- Not encapsulated
- Spindle cells with elongated, sometimes wavy nuclei
- Mast cells
- S100 positive
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Neurofibroma
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Schwannoma
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SMOOTH MUSCLE TUMOR: LEIOMYOMA
- Unencapsulated, intradermal tumor
- Interlacing and sometimes whorled bundles of smooth muscle cells
- Eosinophilic cytoplasm with blunt nuclear ends (cigar shaped)
- Special stain: Trichrome (red)
- IHC: Desmin
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Smooth muscle special stain
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Trichrome Stain
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FIBROUS TUMOR: HYPERTROPHIC SCAR
- Nodular, whorled masses
- More cellular than keloid
- Vertically aligned vessels
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FIBROUS TUMOR: HYPERTROPHIC SCAR
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FIBROUS TUMOR: KELOID
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FIBROUS TUMOR: FIBROEPITHELIAL POLYP(ACROCHORDON)
- Epidermis: may be hyperplastic and papillomatous, surrounding core of fibrovascular tissue
- Loose fibrocollagenous stroma
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FIBROUS TUMOR: DERMATOFIBROMA (FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA)
- Hyperplastic epidermis with basal layer hyperpigmentation
- Rounding up of collagen bundles (collagen balls)
- Fibroblast-like spindle cells, histiocytes and blood vessels in varying proportions
- Factor XIIIa positive
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How can you differentiate dermatofibroma from DFSP?
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Factor XIIIa (+), CD34 (-)
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FIBROUS TUMOR: DERMATOFIBROMA
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FIBROUS TUMOR: DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS
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- What is the diagnosis?
- Associated syndrome?
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- Plexiform neurofibroma
- NF Type I
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- What is the diagnosis?
- IHC Stain?
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Dermatofibroma
Factor XIIIa
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- What is the diagnosis?
- What is the area of highlighted cells called?
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Schwannoma
Antoni B
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Leiomyoma
Masson’s Trichrome stain
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Neurofibroma
Mast cell
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1. Diagnosis
2. Associated conditions with this lesion
ANGIOFIBROMA
Seen in:
-Tuberous sclerosis
-Fibrous papule of the face
-Pearly penile papules
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What kind of tumors are Hypertrophic scar and keloid?
Fibroblastic/ Fibrous Tumors
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Keloid
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FIBROUS TUMOR: ANGIOFIBROMA
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ADIPOCYTIC TUMOR: FIBROLIPOMA
* Strands of collagenous, fibrous connective tissue within mature adipocytes
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Smooth muscle IHC
Desmin
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Identify
Nerve
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Identify
Smooth muscle
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Identify
collagen
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* Encapsulated
* Capillaries and larger caliber vessels containing characteristic microthrombi
* Vessels constitute 5 to 50% of the tumor
## Footnote
*noted microthrombi in the photo