Microcystic adnexal carcinoma: A case series treated with Mohs micrographic surgery and identification of patients in whom paraffin sections may be preferable

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 446-452

  Palamaras, Ioulios ^a   McKenna, John Denis ^a   Robson, Alistair ^a   Barlow, Richard J ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER INVASION; CHEMOSURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROCYSTIC ADNEXAL CARCINOMA; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SWEAT GLAND TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; EYE ENUCLEATION; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOHS SURGERY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEOPLASMS, ADNEXAL AND SKIN APPENDAGE; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950493629     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2010.01476.x     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. Goldstein DJ, Barr RJ, Santa Cruz DJ. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma: a distinct clinicopathologic entity. Cancer 1982 50 : 566 572.
2. Abenoza P, Ackerman AB, eds. Neoplasms with eccrine differentiation. Ackerman's histologic diagnosis of neoplastic skin disease: a method by pattern analysis.
3. Chiller K, Passaro D, Scheuller M, et al. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma: forty-eight cases, their treatment, and their outcome. Arch Dermatol 2000 136 : 1355 1359.
4. LeBoit PE, Sexton M. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma of the skin. A reappraisal of the differentiation and differential diagnosis of an underrecognized neoplasm. J Am Acad Dermatol 1993 29 : 609 618.
5. Sebastien TS, Nelson BR, Lowe L, et al. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma. J Am Acad Dermatol 1993 29 (5 Pt 2) : 840 845.
6. Ban M, Sugie S, Kamiya H, Kitajima Y. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma with lymph node metastasis. Dermatology 2003 207 : 395 397.
7. Rotter N, Wagner H, Fuchshuber S, Issing WJ. Cervical metastases of microcystic adnexal carcinoma in an otherwise healthy woman. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2003 260 : 254 257.
8. Carroll P, Goldstein GD, Brown CW Jr. Metastatic microcystic adnexal carcinoma in an immunocompromised patient. Dermatol Surg 2000 26 : 531 534.
9. Kirkland PM, Solomons NB, Ratcliffe NA. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma. J Laryngol Otol 1997 111 : 674 675.
10. Bier-Lansing CM, Hom DB, Gapany M, et al. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma: management options based on long-term follow-up. Laryngoscope 1995 105 : 1197 1201.
11. Gabillot-Carré M, Weill F, Mamelle G, et al. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma: report of seven cases including one with lung metastasis. Dermatology 2006 212 : 221 228.
12. Ohta M, Hiramoto M, Ohtsuka H. Metastatic microcystic adnexal carcinoma: an autopsy case. Dermatol Surg 2004 30 : 957 960.
13. Yugueros P, Kane WJ, Goellner JR. Sweat gland carcinoma: a clinicopathologic analysis of an expanded series in a single institution. Plast Reconstr Surg 1998 102 : 705 710.
14. Cooper PH, Mills SE, Leonard DD, et al. Sclerosing sweat duct (syringomatous) carcinoma. Am J Surg Pathol 1985 9 : 422 433.
15. Bogner PN, Su LD, Fullen DR. Cluster designation 5 staining of normal and non-lymphoid neoplastic skin. J Cutan Pathol 2005 32 : 50 4.
16. Smith KJ, Williams J, Corbett D, Skelton H. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma: an immunohistochemical study including markers of proliferation and apoptosis. Am J Surg Pathol 2001 25 : 464 471.
17. Penneys NS, Nadji M, Ziegels-Weissman J, et al. Carcinoembryonic antigen in sweat-gland carcinomas. Cancer 1982 50 : 1608 1611.
18. Krahl D, Sellheyer K. Monoclonal antibody Ber-EP4 reliably discriminates between microcystic adnexal carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma. J Cutan Pathol 2007 34 : 782 787.
19. Hoang MP, Dresser KA, Kapur P, et al. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma: an immunohistochemical reappraisal. Mod Pathol 2008 21 : 178 185.
20. Ong T, Liew SH, Mulholland B, et al. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma of the eyebrow. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg 2004 20 : 122 125.
21. Clement CI, Genge J, O'Donnell BA, et al. Orbital and periorbital microcystic adnexal carcinoma. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg 2005 21 : 97 102.
22. Leibovitch I, Huilgol SC, Selva D, et al. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma: treatment with Mohs micrographic surgery. J Am Acad Dermatol 2005 52 : 295 300.
23. Barlow RJ, Ramnarain N, Smith N, et al. Excision of selected skin tumours using Mohs' micrographic surgery with horizontal paraffin-embedded sections. Br J Dermatol 1996 135 : 911 917.
24. Khachemoune A, Olbricht SM, Johnson DS. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma: report of four cases treated with Mohs' micrographic surgical technique. Int J Dermatol 2005 44 : 507 512.
25. Billingsley EM, Fedok F, Maloney ME. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma. Case report and review of the literature. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1996 122 : 179 182.
26. Hoppenreijs VP, Reuser TT, Mooy CM, et al. Syringomatous carcinoma of the eyelid and orbit: a clinical and histopathological challenge. Br J Ophthalmol 1997 81 : 668 672.
27. Eisen DB, Zloty D. Microcystic adnexal carcinoma involving a large portion of the face: when is surgery not reasonable? Dermatol Surg 2005 31 (11 Pt 1) : 1472 1477.