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**Positive in [[extramammary Paget disease]], sweat duct tumours.
**Positive in [[extramammary Paget disease]], sweat duct tumours.


==Sebaceous carcinoma versus squamous cell carcinoma==
===Sebaceous carcinoma versus squamous cell carcinoma===
*CK7 +ve.
*CK7 +ve.
**Useful if positive: 24 of 27 sebaceous carcinomas +ve; only 2 of 22 squamous cell carcinomas positive.<ref name=pmid26485238>{{cite journal |authors=Plaza JA, Mackinnon A, Carrillo L, Prieto VG, Sangueza M, Suster S |title=Role of immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of sebaceous carcinoma: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study |journal=Am J Dermatopathol |volume=37 |issue=11 |pages=809–21 |date=November 2015 |pmid=26485238 |doi=10.1097/DAD.0000000000000255 |url=}}</ref>
**Useful if positive: 24 of 27 sebaceous carcinomas +ve; only 2 of 22 squamous cell carcinomas positive.<ref name=pmid26485238>{{cite journal |authors=Plaza JA, Mackinnon A, Carrillo L, Prieto VG, Sangueza M, Suster S |title=Role of immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of sebaceous carcinoma: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study |journal=Am J Dermatopathol |volume=37 |issue=11 |pages=809–21 |date=November 2015 |pmid=26485238 |doi=10.1097/DAD.0000000000000255 |url=}}</ref>

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Sebaceous carcinoma
Diagnosis in short

Sebaceous carcinoma. H&E stain.
LM

sebaceous differentiation (may be a minor component): sebocytes (abundant pale fluffy cytoplasm with vacuolization); basaloid cells (often dominant);

nodular or diffuse growth pattern surrounded by a dense fibrous stroma; infiltrative border; +/-nuclear atypia, +/-squamous differentiation, +/-foreign body-type giant cells
LM DDx sebaceous adenoma, squamous cell carcinoma (clear cell variant), malignant melanoma, extramammary Paget disease, trichoblastoma,basal cell carcinoma, sweat gland carcinoma
IHC EMA +ve (only sebaceous component), CEA -ve
Gross yellow or red (ulcerated) nodule
Site skin - usu. head and neck, salivary gland
Syndromes Muir-Torre syndrome
Prevalence uncommon

Sebaceous carcinoma, also known as sebaceous cell carcinoma, is an uncommon skin tumour.

General

Notes:

Gross

Features:[2]

  • Classically head and neck tumour.
  • Yellow or red (ulcerated) nodule.

Microscopic

Features:[3]

  • Sebaceous differentiation - may be a minor component - key feature.
    • Sebocytes = abundant pale fluffy cytoplasm with vacuolization.
  • Basaloid cells - often dominant.
    • May lead to confusion with basaloid tumours.
  • Nodular or diffuse growth pattern surrounded by a dense fibrous stroma.
  • Infiltrative border - important.
    • The key difference with sebaceous adenoma in cases where there isn't significant nuclear atypia.
  • +/-Nuclear atypia.
  • +/-Squamous differentiation.
  • +/-Foreign body-type giant cells.

DDx:

Images

  • Sebaceous carcinoma - intermed. mag. (WC/Nephron)

  • Sebaceous carcinoma - high mag. (WC/Nephron)

  • Sebaceous carcinoma - very high mag. (WC/Nephron)

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Grading

Three tier system:[3]

  • Well-differentiated - sebocytes predominant.
  • Moderately differentiated - sebocytes are easily recognized but a minor component.
  • Poorly differentiated - sebocytes are rare.

IHC

Features:[3]

Sebaceous carcinoma versus squamous cell carcinoma

  • CK7 +ve.
    • Useful if positive: 24 of 27 sebaceous carcinomas +ve; only 2 of 22 squamous cell carcinomas positive.[6]
  • Ber-EP4 -ve/+ve.
    • Useful if positive: 7 of 27 sebaceous carcinomas +ve; 0 of 22 squamous cell carcinomas positive.[6]
  • EMA +ve.
    • Useful if negative: 27 of 27 sebaceous carcinoma positive; 16 of 22 squamous cell carcinoma positive.[6]

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SKIN LESION, NOSE, BIOPSY:
- SEBACEOUS CARCINOMA, WELL-DIFFERENTIATED, COMPLETELY EXCISED IN THE PLANE OF SECTION.

COMMENT:
EMA staining marks the sebocytes.  The lesion is negative for Ber-EP4.

Sebaceous carcinoma may be seen in the context of Muir-Torre syndrome.

Micro

Well differentiated

The sections show well-circumscribed dermal nests of basaloid cells with peripheral palisading, surrounded by a dense fibrous stroma. The basaloid cells have distinct nucleoli. Focally, the basaloid nests contain small clusters of cells with abundant pale, vacuolated, fluffy-appearing cytoplasm (sebocytes). Mitotic activity is minimal.

There is no artefactual clefting between the stroma and basaloid cell nests. The epidermis matures to the surface and does not have basal atypia.

The lesion is completely excised in the plane of section.

Poor differentiated

The sections show well-circumscribed dermal nests of basaloid cells with peripheral palisading, surrounded by a dense fibrous stroma, that extend from the skin surface almost to the adipose tissue. The basaloid cells have moderate nuclear atypia with occasional monstrous cells. Mitotic activity is abundant and atypical mitoses are present. The nests contain rare cells with pale, fluffy-appearing cytoplasm, suggestive of sebocytes.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 URL: http://www.ispub.com/journal/the_internet_journal_of_otorhinolaryngology/volume_9_number_2_11/article/sebaceous_adenocarcinoma_of_the_parotid_gland_a_case_report_and_literature_review.html. Accessed on: 8 September 2011.
  2. ↑ Busam, Klaus J. (2009). Dermatopathology: A Volume in the Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series (1st ed.). Saunders. pp. 431. ISBN 978-0443066542.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Busam, Klaus J. (2009). Dermatopathology: A Volume in the Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series (1st ed.). Saunders. pp. 431-2. ISBN 978-0443066542.
  4. ↑ Ansai, S.; Arase, S.; Kawana, S.; Kimura, T. (Oct 2011). "Immunohistochemical findings of sebaceous carcinoma and sebaceoma: retrieval of cytokeratin expression by a panel of anti-cytokeratin monoclonal antibodies.". J Dermatol 38 (10): 951-8. doi:10.1111/j.1346-8138.2011.01274.x. PMID 21592202.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sinard, JH. (Jun 1999). "Immunohistochemical distinction of ocular sebaceous carcinoma from basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma.". Arch Ophthalmol 117 (6): 776-83. PMID 10369589.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Plaza JA, Mackinnon A, Carrillo L, Prieto VG, Sangueza M, Suster S (November 2015). "Role of immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of sebaceous carcinoma: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study". Am J Dermatopathol 37 (11): 809–21. doi:10.1097/DAD.0000000000000255. PMID 26485238.
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