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La Luna

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      • May 24, 2012 at 8:33 pm
      La Luna
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        Thank you everyone.  The biopsy came back as an inflamed seborrheic keratosis which is benign.  I am wondering if I should get a second opinion or if the pathology is so obvious that it is not necessary.  How easy is it to misdiagnose a melanoma as a keratosis? The pathology report stated:

        Specimen A: Shave, Posterior right proximal thigh

        Diagnosis: SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS, INFLAMED

        Specimen Comment: Margins not applicable in this case

        Clinical Information: Check margins, BCCA

        Gross Description: Received in 10% neutral buffered formalin is a segment of tissue measuring 0.6 x 0.3  x 0.1 cm.  The specimen is bisected and submitted entirely in one cassette.

        Microscopic Description: A proliferation of Infundibular and epidermal keratinocytes shows Infundibular cystic structures and hyperkeratosis.  There is an associated inflammatory Infiltrate.  No atypia is present.

         

        What does that mean exactly…and does the BCCA in clinicial mean the doctor thought it was a basal cell?

        • May 24, 2012 at 8:33 pm
        La Luna
        Participant

          Thank you everyone.  The biopsy came back as an inflamed seborrheic keratosis which is benign.  I am wondering if I should get a second opinion or if the pathology is so obvious that it is not necessary.  How easy is it to misdiagnose a melanoma as a keratosis? The pathology report stated:

          Specimen A: Shave, Posterior right proximal thigh

          Diagnosis: SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS, INFLAMED

          Specimen Comment: Margins not applicable in this case

          Clinical Information: Check margins, BCCA

          Gross Description: Received in 10% neutral buffered formalin is a segment of tissue measuring 0.6 x 0.3  x 0.1 cm.  The specimen is bisected and submitted entirely in one cassette.

          Microscopic Description: A proliferation of Infundibular and epidermal keratinocytes shows Infundibular cystic structures and hyperkeratosis.  There is an associated inflammatory Infiltrate.  No atypia is present.

           

          What does that mean exactly…and does the BCCA in clinicial mean the doctor thought it was a basal cell?

          • May 24, 2012 at 8:33 pm
          La Luna
          Participant

            Thank you everyone.  The biopsy came back as an inflamed seborrheic keratosis which is benign.  I am wondering if I should get a second opinion or if the pathology is so obvious that it is not necessary.  How easy is it to misdiagnose a melanoma as a keratosis? The pathology report stated:

            Specimen A: Shave, Posterior right proximal thigh

            Diagnosis: SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS, INFLAMED

            Specimen Comment: Margins not applicable in this case

            Clinical Information: Check margins, BCCA

            Gross Description: Received in 10% neutral buffered formalin is a segment of tissue measuring 0.6 x 0.3  x 0.1 cm.  The specimen is bisected and submitted entirely in one cassette.

            Microscopic Description: A proliferation of Infundibular and epidermal keratinocytes shows Infundibular cystic structures and hyperkeratosis.  There is an associated inflammatory Infiltrate.  No atypia is present.

             

            What does that mean exactly…and does the BCCA in clinicial mean the doctor thought it was a basal cell?

            • May 24, 2012 at 12:31 am
            La Luna
            Participant
              Thanks. I like the “why borrow trouble”; I will remember that. I just have a bad feeling this time and I’ve never really worried about biopsy results before.
              • May 24, 2012 at 12:31 am
              La Luna
              Participant
                Thanks. I like the “why borrow trouble”; I will remember that. I just have a bad feeling this time and I’ve never really worried about biopsy results before.
                • May 24, 2012 at 12:31 am
                La Luna
                Participant
                  Thanks. I like the “why borrow trouble”; I will remember that. I just have a bad feeling this time and I’ve never really worried about biopsy results before.
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