Non-malignant skin disease

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Non-malignant skin disease is relatively common. The pathology may or may not be specific. Some diseases require clinical information to diagnose.

An introduction to dermatopathology is in the dermatopathology article.

General classification (Inflammatory)

  • Bullous.
  • Interface.
  • Nodular & diffuse.
  • Spongiotic.
  • Vasculitis.
  • Perivascular.
  • Panniculitis.
  • Psoriasiform.

Tabular comparison of inflammatory skin disease (adapted from Brister[1]):

Pattern Key histologic feature Subclassifications Example
Bullous "Empty space" -Subcorneal
-Suprabasillar
-Subepidermal		 -Pemphigus foliaceus
-Pemphigus vulgaris
-Dermatitis herpetiformis
Interface Inflammation at DE junction -Vacuolar (minimal)
-Lichenoid (band-like)		 -Erythema multiforme
-Lichen simplex chronicus (LSC)
Nodular & diffuse Nodular & diffuse ?
Spongiotic Edema between keratinocytes -Acute
-Subacute
-Chronic		 -Poison Ivy
-Nummular dermatitis
-Atopic dermatitis
Vasculitis Inflammation of vessel wall ? ?
Perivascular Inflammation around vessels ? ?
Panniculitis Inflamm. of SC tissue -Septal
-Nodular		 -?
-Erythema nodosum
Psoriasiform Epidermal thickening
and long rete ridges		 -Regular
-Irregular		 -Psoriasis
-?

Notes:

  • DE junction = dermal-epidermal junction.
  • The "empty space" in bullous disease in situ is filled with fluid.

Psoriasis

General

  • Can be subclassified.

DDx:

  • Psoriasis vulgaris (most common).
  • Psoriatic arthritis.
  • Drug-induced.
  • Others.

Microscopic

Features:[2]

  • Epidermal thickened - as very long rete ridges (described as "test tube-morphology") - key feature.
    • Epidermis between rete ridges thin.

Seborrheic dermatitis

General

  • Very common.

Microscopic

Features:[3]

  • Spongiosis (epidermal edema).
  • Acanthosis (epidermal thickening).
  • "Follicular lipping" = parakeratosis with neutrophils.
  • Perivascular neutrophils and lymphocytes.

Lichen planus

General

  • An oral pathology.
  • May be seen where the sun don't shine - penis,[4] vulva and vagina.[5]

Etiology:

  • Autoimmune disease, T-cell–mediated.[6]

Clinical:[7]

  • 6 Ps: pruritic (itchy), purple, polygonal, planar papules and plaques.

Microscopy

Features:[8][9]

  • Loss of basal cells (stratum basale) -- key feature.
  • Loss of rete ridges/formation of pointed rete ridges "sawtoothing".
  • Interface dermatitis (lymphocytes at dermal-epidermal junction).
  • Hypergranulosis; stratum granulosum thickened (grossly seen as "Wickham stria" = white lines).
  • Hyperkeratosis; stratum corneum thickened.

Notes:

Images:

Lichen sclerosus

  • AKA chronic atrophic vulvitis - vulvar lesion; balanitis xerotica obliterans (BXO) - penile lesion.[10]

Microscopic

Key feature:[11]

  • Subepithelial fibrosis.

Squamous cell hyperplasia

General

  • Variant of spongiotic dermatitis.[13]

Etiology:[14]

  • Pruritus (itchness) -> mechanical trauma -> lichenification (thickened/leathery[15].

Microscopic

Features:[11]

  • Acanthosis (epithelial thickening).
  • Hyperkeratosis.

Other features:[16]

  • Spongiosis (epidermal intercellular edema -- cells appear to have a clear halo around 'em).
  • Parakeratosis = retention of nuclei in the stratum corneum.

Images:

Seborrheic keratosis

General

  • Benign.
  • Common.

Epidemiology

  • Old people.

Gross

  • "Stuck-on" appearance - raised lesion.

Image(s):

Microscopic

Features:

  • Normal appearing epidermis - raised above skin surface.
  • "Horn cysts" - collections of keratin.

Image(s):

Verruca vulgaris

General

  • AKA Wart.
  • Etiology: HPV. (???)

Microscopic

Features:

  • Hyperkeratosis (more keratin - thick stratum corneum).
  • Hypergranulosis (thicker stratum granulosum).
  • Rete ridges lengthened (~7-10x normal).
  • Acanthosis (thickening of the stratum spinosum).
  • Large blood vessels at the dermal-epidermal junction.

Ref.:[17]

Molluscum contagiosum

  • Etiology: caused by molluscum contagiosum virus.

Microscopic

Features:

  • A suprabasilar epidermal lesion consisting of "molluscum bodies", i.e. molluscum bodies are found above the stratum basale.[18]
  • Molluscum bodies:
    • Large cells with abundant granular eosinophilic cytoplasm.
    • Small peripheral nucleus.

Image(s):

Note:

  • Molluscum bodies vaguely resemble signet ring cells -- but:
    • Cytoplasm eosinophilic and granular.
    • Nucleus usually smaller than in signet ring cell.
    • Molluscum bodies are only the epidermis - an uncommon place to find SRCs without finding them elsewhere.
  • The granular eosinophilic cytoplasm represents accumulated virons.

Dermal nevus

  • Think melanoma.

Clinical: ABCD = asymmetric, borders (irregular), colour (black), diameter (large).

Microscopic

Features:[19]

  • Symmetrical lesion.
  • "Matures" with depth - less cellular, less atypia.
  • No destruction of surrounding structures.
  • Only in dermis key feature.
    • Otherwise it is something else, e.g. dermal nevus, junctional nevus.

Microscopic

  • Basaloid cells mixed with squamous cells.
  • Keratin-filled invaginations.
  • Horn cysts - intraepidermal, brown globule-like structures.
    • Melanocytes at the dermoepidermal junction.[20]

Pilomatrixoma

General

  • Benign skin tumour.
  • Most common solid skin tumour of children.[21]

Clinical:

  • Hard nodule - calcification.
  • +/-Painful. (???)

Treatment:

  • Surgical excision.[21]

Microscopic

Features:[22]

  • Location: lower dermis/subcutaneous fat; thus, usu. surrounded by connective tissue.
  • Sharpy demarcated island of cells.
  • Calcification in 75% - with calcium staining (von Kossa).
  • Cells:[23]
    • Basaloid epithelial cells - have prominent nucleoli.
    • Anucleate squamous cells ("ghost cells").
  • Giant cell foreign body type granulomas (form in reaction to keratin).

Notes:

  • Keratin a prominent feature on cytology - lots of orange stuff.

Images:

DDx:

  • Epidermal inclusion cyst.

Syringoma

General

  • Benign sweat duct tumour.
  • Eccrine differentiation.
  • Usually close to lower eyelid.[24]

Microscopic

Features:[25]

  • Proliferation of benign ducts with lined by a bilayer (as in normal sweat ducts) with abnormal architecture:
    • Tadpole like appearing ducts.

Image:

Inverted follicular keratosis

Images:

Dermal cylindroma

General

  • Benign skin lesion.
  • Should not be confused with cylindroma (adenoid cystic carcinoma).

Microscopic

Features:

  • Nests of cells that are surrounded by hyaline (i.e. glassy, eosinophilic, acellular) material.

Images:

Keratoacanthoma

  • Abbreviated KA.
  • Generally considered to be benign.
    • Rare reports of metastases suggesting it may be a form of squamous cell carcinoma.[27]

Clinical

  • May grow rapidly (weeks or months) then involute.
  • Main DDx is squamous cell carcinoma.
  • Exophytic lesion, well-circumscribed.

Microscopic

Features:[28]

  • Expansion of stratum spinosum - pushing tongue-like downward growth of epidermis into the dermis.
  • Keratin collection (keratin plug) at the center of lesion-superficial aspect.
  • Cells have glassy pink cytoplasm.
  • Minimal/no nuclear atypia.

Image:

Dermatofibroma

General

  • AKA fibrous histiocytoma.
  • Reactive process -- it is not a neoplasm.
  • Usually associated with previous trauma.
    • In women... usually legs.

Microscopic

Features:[29]

  • Prominent fibrous bundles, especially at the edge of the lesion.
    • Surrounded by spindle cells (fibroblasts).
      • Usually thought of as fibroblasts surrounded by fibrous material ("collagen-trapping").
  • Lack of adnexal structures, i.e. no sweat glands, no hair.
  • +/-Acanthosis (thickened epithelial layer - specifically thickened stratum spinosum) with basal keratinocyte hyperpigmentation.
    • May vaguely resemble basal cell carcinoma.

Images:

DDx:

IHC

Features:[30][31]

  • Factor XIIIa +ve.
    • Usually negative in DFSP.
  • CD34 -ve.
    • Usually positive in DFSP.

Superficial dermal infiltrates

Discussed in detail by Alsaad and Ghazarian.[32]

Dermal perivascular lymphoeosinophilic infiltration (DPLI)

  • Microscopic appearance is just what it is called:
    • Lymphocytes and eosinophils around the vessels in the superficial dermis.

DDx:[32]

  • Insect bite - classically wedge-shaped.[33]
  • Drug reactions.
  • Urticarial reactions.
  • Prevesicular early stage of bullous pemphigoid.
  • HIV related dermatoses.

Notes:

  • May superficially resemble cutaneous lymphoma.[33]

Images:

Congenital dermal melanocytosis

  • AKA Mongolian spots.
  • Classically seen in asian children.

Gross:

  • Brown or blue-grey patch in the lumbosacral area.

Mastocytosis

General

  • Abundance of mast cells.
  • Predominantly in children - if skin only.

Microscopic

Features:[34]

  • Cells in the superficial/mid dermis that are:
    • Lymphocyte-like with more cytoplasm that is granular.
      • Cells may have spindled or stellate morphology.
      • Tend to be more abundant around vessels.
  • +/-Eosinophils (common).
  • +/-Edema - often prominent; gives cells a white halo.

Notes:

  • Lymphocyte vs. mast cell:
    • Lymphocytes = round; mast cells = ovoid.

Images:

Stains

Ichthyosis

General

  • Comes in different flavours.
  • Usu. inherited... thus a pediatric condition.

Clinical:

  • Fish scale-like appearance.

Microscopic

Features:[34]

  • Thick stratum corneum without basket-weave pattern.

Palmar fibromatosis

General

  • AKA Dupuytren's contracture.

Clinical:[35]

  • Usually older 60-70s.
  • Male > female.
  • Associated with:
    • Alcohol abuse.
  • May be familial.

Microscopic

Features:[36]

  • Bland spindle cells in dense collagen.
    • No nuclear atypia.
  • Giant cells.
  • +/-Mitotic figures.

Images:

Ezcema

General

  • A nebulous thingy.
  • Very common.

DDx:

  • Contact allergy.
  • Drug reaction.
  • Food allergy.

Microscopic

Features:[38]

  • Spongiosis (epidermal edema); keratinocytes spacing increased - key feature.
  • +/-Interdermal vesicles.
  • +/-Eosinophils (may suggest Rx reaction).
  • Perivascular lymphocytes.

Bullous disease

Main article: Bullous disease

Cysts

Main article: Dermal cysts

See also

References

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