Granular cell basal cell carcinoma of the skin. Report of a case with immunocytochemical positivity for lysozyme

Tumori

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 712-714

  Boscaino, Amedeo ^a   Tornillo, Luigi ^a   Orabona, Pasquale ^a   Staibano, Stefania ^a   Gentile, Raffaella ^b   De Rosa, Gaetano ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

basal cell carcinoma; granular cell tumors; lysozyme

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME;

AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GRANULAR CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0030745366     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089169708300317     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Abrikosoff A.: Über Myome, ausgehend von der quergestreiften wilkurlichen Muskulatur. Virchows Arch. [A], 360: 215-233, 1926.
2. Barr R.J., Alpern K.S., Santa Cruz D.J., Fretzin D.F.: Clear cell basal cell carcinoma: an unusual degenerative variant. J. Cutan. Pathol., 20: 308-316, 1993.
3. Barr R.J., Graham J.H.: Granular cell basal cell carcinoma. Arch. Dermatol., 115: 1064-1067, 1979.
4. Garcia P., Lòpez Carreira M., Martinez-Gonzàlez M.A., Ballestin R.G., De Prada I.: Granular cell basal cell carcinoma. Light microscopy, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study. Virchows Arch. [A], 422: 173-177, 1993.
5. Hartman K.S.: Granular cell ameloblastoma. A survey of twenty cases from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Oral Surg., 38: 241-253, 1974.
6. Khansur T., Balducci L., Tavassoli M.: Identification of desmosomes in the granular cell tumor. Implications in histologic diagnosis and histogenesis. Am. J. Surg. Pathol., 9: 898-904, 1985.
7. LeBoit P.E., Barr R.J., Burall S., Metcalf J.S., Benedict Yen T.B., Wick M.R.: Primitive polypoid granular cell tumor and other cutaneous granular-cell neoplasms of apparent nonneural origin. Am. J. Surg. Pathol., 15: 48-58, 1991.
8. Lever W.F., Schaumburg-Lever G.: Histopathology of the skin, pp. 582-593, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1990.
9. McWilliam L.J., Harris M.: Granular cell angiosarcoma of the skin: histology, electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry of a newly recognized tumor. Histopathology, 9: 1205-1216, 1985.
10. Mrak R.E., Baker G.F.: Granular cell basal cell carcinoma. J. Cutan. Pathol., 14: 37-42, 1979.
11. Rai Mittal K., True L.D.: Origin of granules in granular cell tumor. Intracellular myelin formation with autodigestion. Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med., 112: 302-303, 1988.
12. Reidbord H.E., Wechsler H.L., Fisher E.R.: Ultrastructural study of basal cell carcinoma and its variants with comments on histogenesis. Arch. Dermatol., 104: 132, 1971.
13. Rosai J. (Ed.): Ackerman's Surgical Pathology VII, vol. II, pp. 1609-1610, Mosby, St. Louis, 1989.
14. Sobel H.J., Marquet E.: Granular cells and granular cell lesions. Pathol. Annu., 14: 43-79, 1974.
15. Sobel H.J., Marquet E., Schwartz R.: Is schwannoma related to granular cell myoblastoma? Arch. Pathol., 95: 396-401, 1973.
16. Sobel H.J., Schwartz R., Marquet E.: Light and electron microscope study of the origin of granular cell myoblastoma. J. Pathol., 109: 101-111, 1973.
17. Sternberg S.S. (Ed.): Diagnostic surgical pathology. Raven Press, New York, 1994.
18. Suster S., Rosen L.B.: Granular leiomyosarcoma of the skin. Am. J. Dermatopathol., 10: 234-239, 1988.
19. Wade T.R., Ackerman A.B.: The many faces of basal cell carcinoma. J. Dermatol. Surg. Oncol., 4: 123-128, 1978.