🦀 Medical record: oropharyngeal carcinoma.
➡️ Ulcerative lesion in the surgical scar.
💉 Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration performed by Interventional Pathologist.
🔬 Relapse. Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
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Sclerosing lipogranuloma it is. 😊
A mixture of fat necrosis, histiocytes, foamy macrophages, multinucleated giant cells, and fibrosis.
Often associated with prior injection of exogenous material (e.g. paraffin).
The differential includes adenomatoid tumor (due to large vacuoles) and well-diff liposarc (due to pseudolipoblast-like cells).
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Rosai and Ackerman’s Surgical Pathology, male genital tract section;
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Masson's trichrome is the best stain to detect malignancy in the small biopsy.
It highlights following parameters better than HE:
• Desmoplasia
• Tumor microenvironment
• Tumor percentage
Very underrated stain.
People often say skin tumors aren’t serious. Show them this cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma grossly invading the skull.
Skin cancer can be destructive, disfiguring, and even life-threatening. Early diagnosis and treatment matter. #Pathology#Dermatopathology#SkinCancer#med
Breast vacuum core biopsy with this sole lesion. Any thoughts on the diagnosis? What is the clinical implication of the diagnosis?
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