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Dermatopathology: Practical & Conceptual

April - June 2007 | Volume 13, #2
"Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life."
George Tooker

Cover Art: The Knight in Grey, with a greyish nodule on his lip
by Giovanni Borroni, MD, Olga Ciocca, MD, and Camilla Vassallo, MD, PhD

Editorial: 2007—Nothing more to say about “dysplasia”?
by Almut Böer, MD

Question to Authorities: Do you use the word “dysplasia”?

New Heights: Most “large dysplastic nevi” are really small congenital nevi!

by Yaqin Zhang, MD and A. Bernard Ackerman, MD

Lack of Diagnostic Accuracy: More than a third of all lesions diagnosed clinically as Clark’s or dysplastic nevi are unequivocally congenital nevi on histopathologic diagnosis
by Almut Böer, MD

New Insights: Lack of unanimity about the character of “dysplastic nevus” and “common acquired nevus” in published photomicrographs and clinical photographs
by Harald Kittler, MD and A. Bernard Ackerman, MD

New Quandary: 31 names in 31 years for a single nevus?
by Irina Margaritescu, MD, Aurel Doru Chirita, MD, and A. Bernard Ackerman, MD

New Quandary: Atypical pityriasis rosea, atypical fibroxanthoma, atypical mycobacteria, atypical cell, atypical mitotic figure, architectural atypia, etc.
by A. Bernard Ackerman, MD, Veronica Dinu, MD, and Mark A. Hurt, MD

Pilomatricoma: A neoplasm of panfollicular differentiation
by Mihaela Costache, MD

Back to the Future: Granuloma annulare—an historical perspective
by Mirjana Ziemer, MD

New Quandary: Central centrifugal scarring alopecia (CCSA)?
by Abbas Naji Alshammari, MD

Integration: Classification of alopecias—a need for revision
by Friederike Kauer, MD and A. Bernard Ackerman, MD

General Pathology and Dermatopathology Are One Pathology: Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) in the skin of an elderly patient: Primary or metastatic?
by Elizabeth Ball de Picón, MD, Germán Placencio, MD, José David Mota, MD, Lucía Sanoja, MD, and José Rafael Sardi, MD

Tropical Troves: Annular plaques on the arm and back
by Johannes F. Dayrit, MD

Comparative Dermatopathology: Canine mycosis fungoides
by Dana M. Correale, MD, Jeffrey A. Sachar VMD, Erin Hardam, DVM., dACVP, and Jason B. Lee, MD

From the Clinic of Dermatology in Strasbourg: A pleomorphic tumor on the scalp
by Eric Frouin, MD, Yannis Scrivener, MD, and Bernard Cribier MD, PhD

Question: What ever happened to “pagetoid melanocytic proliferation”?
by Garron J. Solomon, MD

Carcinoma or Not?: A 68-year-old man with an “infected epidermal cyst” on the heel
by Elizabeth Philipone, DMD and Sheng Chen, MD, PhD

Observation: Interstitial morphea—importance of clinical information and adequate biopsy
by Betina Werner, MD and Ezio Augusto Amaral Filho, MD

From the Dermatologikum Hamburg: Insect bites?
by Almut Böer, MD

Language: Tropisms (Part 2)—Neurotropism?
by María J. González-Beato, MD

Teaching: My scholarship at the Dermatologikum Hamburg
by Abbas Naji Alshammari, MD

Book Review: Nonmelanocytic Tumors of the Skin. AFIP Atlas of Tumor Pathology, Series 4
by Candace S. Kasper, MD, PhD, Klaus J. Busam, MD, and Mark A. Hurt, MD

From the Editorial Office: Dermatopathology: Practical & Conceptual 2002-2006: The statistics
by Almut Böer, MD

Fable: The old man and death
by Aesop from Greece

History Ethics and Academe
by A. Bernard Ackerman, MD

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