A COMBINED OCCURRENCE OF NEUROENDOCRINE CARCINOMA OF THE SKIN AND A BENIGN APPENDAGEAL NEOPLASM

Authors
YAMAMOTO O TANIMOTO A YASUDA H SUENAGA Y ASAHI M
Citation
O. Yamamoto et al., A COMBINED OCCURRENCE OF NEUROENDOCRINE CARCINOMA OF THE SKIN AND A BENIGN APPENDAGEAL NEOPLASM, Journal of cutaneous pathology, 20(2), 1993, pp. 173-176
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Pathology,"Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
Journal title
Journal of cutaneous pathology → ACNP
ISSN journal
03036987
Volume
20
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
173 - 176
Database
ISI
SICI code
0303-6987(1993)20:2<173:ACOONC>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
A 76-year-old Japanese male presented with a subcutaneous nodule in th e dorsal cubital region of the right arm. The center of the nodule sho wed typical features of neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin. The peri pheral portion showed epithelial islands of squamoid cells with horn c ysts suggestive of benign appendageal tumor with pilar differentiation . The coexistence of two skin neoplasms in the same lesion would sugge st that both tumors developed from common pluripotential stem cell.