"Multinucleated melanocytes may mimic malignancy"

✳️ Multinucleation occurs in both benign & malignant melanocytic lesions
✳️ In benign nevi, overlapping nuclei may mimic atypia at low power

🔎 Take a closer look:
https://kikoxp.com/posts/23857

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KiKo XP | WSI: Intradermal Melanocytic Nevus

Whole slide image (digital slide) below:

46♀️ w/ slow-growing, painless finger mass

➡️ What's your differential diagnosis?
➡️ Any molecular abnormalities?

🔬 WSI: http://buff.ly/3UqS227
💡Answer: http://buff.ly/3ujhJHt
📺 Video: http://buff.ly/3gZ3Nzd

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KiKo XP | CASE 3: 46F w/ finger mass (New Resident Soft Tissue Unknowns)

46 year old female with a slow-growing, painless finger mass.- What's your differential diagnosis?- Reactive or neoplastic?- Benign or malignant?Answer: https://kikoxp.com/posts/14170---You can also check out the rest of the New Resident Soft Tissue Unknowns!(Videos are also available to watch on YouTube)

53♂️ w/ retroperitoneal soft tissue mass abutting the pancreas.

➡️ What's your differential diagnosis?
➡️ What additional testing would you order?

🔬 WSI: http://buff.ly/3wDoDZo
💡Answer: http://buff.ly/3VuQFAL
📺 Video: http://buff.ly/3QYOmUf

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KiKo XP | CASE 2: 53M w/ peripancreatic mass (New Resident Soft Tissue Unknowns)

53 year old male with a peripancreatic soft tissue mass.

23♀️ w/ rapidly growing soft tissue mass near clavicle

➡️ What's your differential diagnosis?
➡️ What imaging findings would you expect?

🔬 WSI: http://kikoxp.com/posts/14004
💡Answer: http://kikoxp.com/posts/14100
📺 Video: http://youtu.be/Nqh8U3FIVfY

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KiKo XP | CASE 1: 23F w/ retroclavicular mass (New Resident Soft Tissue Unknowns)

23 year old female with rapidly growing soft tissue mass near clavicle.- What's your differential diagnosis?- Reactive or neoplastic?- Benign or malignant?Answer: https://kikoxp.com/posts/14100---You can also check out the rest of the New Resident Soft Tissue Unknowns!(Videos are also available to watch on YouTube)

Looking to hone your #bstpath skills? 🔎

Check out these 3 challenging cases aimed at new #pathresidents

CASE 1 ➡️ http://buff.ly/3XRQKAc
CASE 2 ➡️ http://buff.ly/3wDoDZo
CASE 3 ➡️ http://buff.ly/3UqS227

I hope you find them interesting & educational!

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KiKo XP | CASE 1: 23F w/ retroclavicular mass (New Resident Soft Tissue Unknowns)

23 year old female with rapidly growing soft tissue mass near clavicle.- What's your differential diagnosis?- Reactive or neoplastic?- Benign or malignant?Answer: https://kikoxp.com/posts/14100---You can also check out the rest of the New Resident Soft Tissue Unknowns!(Videos are also available to watch on YouTube)

Plexiform fibrohistiocytic tumor:
1️⃣ Kids/YAs, forearm
2️⃣ Nodules of histiocytoid cells + MNGCs
3️⃣ Infiltrative fascicles of spindle cells

Learn more:
➡️ https://buff.ly/3ielHhz ⬅️

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Plexiform Fibrohistiocytic Tumor (CASE 3) | New Resident Unknowns #2 | #DERMPATH & #BSTPATH

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Papillary eccrine adenoma:
1️⃣ Rare; distal extremities; ♀️>♂️
2️⃣ Variably dilated ducts w/ papillae
3️⃣ Dense fibrous stroma

Learn more:
➡️ https://buff.ly/3F9OMnq ⬅️

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Papillary Eccrine Adenoma (CASE 2) | New Resident Unknowns #2 | #DERMPATH & #BSTPATH

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Alveolar soft part sarcoma:
1️⃣ Kids/YAs; thigh; ♀️>♂️
2️⃣ Discohesive nests of large cells w/ pink, granular cytoplasm
3️⃣ t(X;17) - ASPL-TFE3

Learn more:
➡️ http://buff.ly/3idlJWV ⬅️

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Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma (CASE 1) | New Resident Unknowns #2 | #DERMPATH & #BSTPATH

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