PATHOLOGY & LABORATORY MEDICINE
Clinical Evaluation and Treatment of Soft Tissue Tumors
General Considerations
Approach to the Diagnosis of Soft Tissue Tumors
Cutaneous Adnexal Tumors
Case 1 History The patient is a 34-year-old female with a skin-colored 5-mm papule on her cheek near the nasolabial fold. Microscopic Findings Sections show a circumscribed dermal proliferation of…
Melanocytic Neoplasms
Case 1 History The patient is a 40-year-old male with a 6-mm darkly pigmented right forearm macule, which is circumscribed and has been unchanging. Microscopic Findings Sections demonstrate slight epidermal…
Tumors of the Muscle and Fat
Case 1 History The patient is a 54-year-old female with a painful, circumscribed, skin-colored papule on the chest. Microscopic Findings Sections show a dermal proliferation of spindle cells with a…
Vascular Neoplasms
Case 1 History The patient is a 1-year-old female who developed a solitary bright red plaque on the scalp that developed rapidly over a few weeks. Closer examination reveals a…
Granulomatous Dermatitis
Case 1 History The patient is a 52-year-old male with a recent history of reddish brown follicular papules and nodules on the central face. The patient reports flushing on drinking…
Fibrohistiocytic Tumors
Case 1 History The patient is a 55-year-old male with a brown papule on the left lower leg. Histopathology Microscopic sections show irregular pigmented epidermal hyperplasia with flattening of rete…