Published in Surgical pathology clinics
BPDCN is a recently elucidated clinicopathologic entity. This disease typically involves the skin, with 30% to 40% of patients showing an additional concurrent leukemic component. Although BPDCN often exhibits cytologic features akin to acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the main differential diagnostic challenge, in the skin and in the bone marrow, is ...
Published in La radiologia medica
ObjectivesTo compare the concordance between fine-needle aspiration and core biopsies for osseous lesions by lesion imaging appearance and CT attenuation.Materials and methodsRetrospective review of 215 FNAs of osseous lesions performed in conjunction with core biopsy at our institution over a 6-year period (2011–2016). FNAs were interpreted indepe...
Published in Journal of Hematology
Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is aggressive hematopoietic malignancy derived from the precursors of plasmacytoid dendritic cells. The present study reported a case of a 35-year-old BPDCN patient, who presented with scalp lesions without extracutaneous involvement of the lymph nodes (LNs), peripheral or bone marrow. Histopatho...
Review on t(6;8)(p21;q24), with data on clinics, and the genes involved.
