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Lessons from Great Cases
Melissa Piliang, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Dermatology and Anatomic Pathology
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• No conflicts of interest
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A case of mistaken identity
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42 year old womanVietnamese immigrant, in US since teensPainful nodules lower legs for 4 years
Sudden, unpredictable onsetSlowly resolve with hyperpigmentation
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Past Treatments
• No improvement with:
– Topical steroids
– Antibiotics
– Sclerotherapy (?!?)
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Punch biopsy10X obj
Mixed septal and lobular panniculitis with necrosis
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Punch biopsy50X obj
Mixed septal and lobular panniculitis with necrosis
Infectious stains negative
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Treatment
• Presumed erythema nodosum:
– Colchicine with dose increased to 0.6mg BID
– Compression stockings
– Leg elevation
– NSAIDs
• Continued developing new lesions
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2 Months Later – Repeat Biopsy
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Predominantly lobular panniculitis
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Suppurative and granulomatous vasculitis
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Suppurative and granulomatous inflammation
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Diagnosis: Erythema Induratum (Nodular Vasculitis)
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Exposure History
- Born in Vietnam
- Immigrated to US in 1998 at age 14
- Initially living in Houston TX x2 months, then California until 2013, now Cleveland
- Worked in healthcare as an optician, now stay-at-home mom
- Travel to Vietnam and Taiwan in past 2 years
- Known TB exposures
- Sister with inactive TB in 2010
- Dad prior latent TB not treated
- Had BCG as a child (prior PPDs negative)
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Clinical Course
• Referred to Infectious Disease
• Further testing included:• Positive:
• Quantiferon Gold Test - twice• PPD: positive (32mm)
• Negative:• Tissue culture/fungal culture/AFB stain/PCR for TB: neg• Chest X-ray: negative
• Hepatitis panel: negative• ASO: negative
PPD
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Treatment
• Latent TB –
– No organisms on skin biopsy, culture or PCR
– No pulmonary or constitutional symptoms
– CXR negative
• Isoniazid daily for 9 months
• Nodules resolved and no new lesions developed
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Erythema Induratum (Nodular Vasculitis)
• Rare panniculitis• Ernest Bazin recognized in 1861• Ages 13-66, F>>M• Recurrent crops of tender, violaceous nodules
– Ulcerate, drain, scar, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation
• The three clinical subsets of EI are:– TB-associated– Associated with other diseases or drugs– Idiopathic
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EI vs EN
• Clinically:
- EI - Posterior calves
- More chronic
- Often ulcerates or drains
- EN:- More on anterior legs
- No ulceration
- Associated with autoimmune disease
- Sarcoid, RA, IBD, etc
• Histologically:
- EI:- More granulomatous
- Mixed lobular and septal panniculitis
- Associated with vasculitis
- EN:- Predominately septal panniculitis
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What I learned
• If biopsy doesn’t fit -> keep trying!
• Take a thorough history
• EI frequently misdiagnosed as EN
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When at first you don’t succeed, try, try again
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Day 0
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Day 9 Day 16
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Day 21
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Work-Up
• Mild eosinphilia at admission -> normal range most of hospital course
• Strongyloides in gastric aspirate and stool
• BAL negative
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Clinical Course
• Fatalitiy rate 50-89%
• Cure rates 70% and 59%
• Respiratory failure
• Gram negative septicemia
• Meningitis
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What I learned
• Trust your clinicians’ judgment
• Keep biopsying
• Be patient
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Beware of the Lichenoid Actinic Keratosis
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Beware of immunosuppressed patients –anything can happen and everything looks odd!
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70 year old manLong history of rheumatoid arthritis – low dose prednisoneHistory of granular cell leukemia (in remission)
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Protothecosis
Localized or disseminated infectionAlgae
Sporangia are thick walled spherical bodies often in cytoplasm of giant cells
Many internal septations with endospore -Classic morula appearance
NonbuddingProminent wall
Inflammation may be sparse
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The Lesson
• Always biopsy!
• Tissue cultures!
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Itch Crisis?
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Treatment
• Methotrexate
• Azathioprine
• Prednisone
• Topical steroids
• Antihistamines
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Crusted (Norwegian) Scabies
• All immunosuppressants stopped
• Treatment:
– Permethrin -> x2, 1 week apart
– Ivermectin -> x2, 2 weeks apart
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Outcome
• LP Pigmentosa faded
• Itch dramatically improved
• Persistant– Mild scalp itch
– Scalp dermatitis
• Repeat scalp biopsy -> LPP without scabies
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Clinical Infectious Diseases. 54(6):882;2012
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What I Learned
• Itch crisis? Think scabies
• Patients can have 2 things
• Scrape!
• Biopsy (and re-biopsy and re-biopsy) diseases that fail to respond to treatment
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• 60 year old woman
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Rheumatoid vasculitis
– Flaring, unresponsive to increasing immunosuppression
– Cytoxan, prednisone, azathioprine, rituximab
• Biopsy to rule out vasculitits
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Disseminated Varicella Zoster
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What I Learned
• Look at the whole patient
• Always think of herpes/varicella
• Beware when things get worse with immunosuppression
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• 53 year old man
• Psoriatic arthritis since 2009
• 6 months ago - joint swelling and skin lesions
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Multiple skin biopsies
1. Thigh: septal panniculitis c/w EN
2. Right foot - interface dermatitis
3. Right thigh - palisaded neutrophilic granulomatous dermatitis
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Treatments
• Current:– MTX 25mg weekly SQ (previously on 35mg)– Prednisone 7.5 mg (previously on 10 mg)– Dapsone 100mg daily (past 8 weeks)
• Past:– Humira (was on when skin lesions appeared)– Enbrel– Simponi
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Necrobiotic granulomas-Rheumatoid nodule-Deep granuloma annulare-Infectious
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10 days after biopsy
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3 weeks later…….
• Culture grew Mycobacterium haemophilum
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3 weeks later…….
• Culture grew Mycobacterium haemophilum
• On 100x oil
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3 weeks later…….
• Culture grew Mycobacterium haemophilum
• On 100x oil
• Dr Procop:
‘I’ve never seen
M haem in skin’
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Mycobacterium haemophilum
• First identified in 1978
• Skin ulcer in 51-year-old Israeli woman with Hodgkin's disease
• Organism likely not new – acid-fast bacilli in biopsies, but cultures were negative
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2 high risk groups
• Most common: – Opportunistic infection in severely immunocompromised patients
• Lymphomas • Renal transplant patients• HIV – now most common
• Second risk group: – Otherwise healthy children cervical and perihilar lymphadenitis
• Similar to infections with M avium complex, M tuberculosis, and M scrofulaceum• Reported in Australia, North America, and Israel
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Hard to find
• 16 culture positive cases:– Initial review: AFB + in 6 cases– 2nd review: AFB + in 5 more
– 9/16 – Low bacterial index 1 or 2 bacilli/50 oil immersion fields
– 3/16 – organism found only after AFB stain repeated
– 2/16 – bacilli were numerous, with more than 50 organisms per 50 oil immersion fields
Busam K, et al. Histologic Reactions to Cutaneous Infections by Mycobacterium Haemophilum The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 1999;23:1379
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Variable Histologic Findings
• Suppurative and granulomatous inflammation
• Suppurative panniculitis
• Necrotizing vasculitis
• Interface dermatitis
• Epithelioid granulomas – necrotizing and non-necrotizing
Busam K, et al. Histologic Reactions to Cutaneous Infections by Mycobacterium Haemophilum The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 1999;23:1379
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Mycobacterium haemophilum
• Unique growth requirements:
1. Iron-containing media
2. Optimally grows at 30–32 C vs 37 C for most other pathogenic mycobacteria
• Diagnosis often delayed………
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How did we culture it?
• Luck?
• Protocol?
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How did we culture it?
• Luck - NEVER
• Protocol?
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How did we culture it?
• Luck - NEVER
• Protocol – YES
– All mycobacterial cultures from extremities:
• Incubated at 32 and 37
• Heme strip added
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What I learned
• M haem has special culture requirements
• Do special stains!
• Recommend tissue cultures
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Beware of Misleading History
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• 16 yo girl
• Rash for 3 months
• A little itchy, a little painful
• No response to topical steroids
• Worse with sun exposure
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Clinical Differential Diagnosis
• Family very concerned
• Lupus
• Allergic contact dermatitis
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A case of mistaken identity – why you should ALWAYS do bug stains
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• 30 year-old-man
• Several month h/o oral ulcers
• Weight loss
• Felt unwell
• Unable to eat due to pain
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History
• Prior outside biopsy showed acute and chronic granulomatous infiltrate
• Working dx: Wegener’s
• Treated with high dose prednisone (40-60 mg daily)
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Work-up - Positives
• Leukopenia
• Anemia
• T-cell deficiency
• Hypoalbuminemia
• Endoscopy – superficial esophageal erosions
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Work-up - Normal
• HIV negative – multiple times
• Blood cultures – negative
• CXR – normal
• Imaging – showed ulcers, but no lesions outside oral/nasal cavity
• Renal function - normal
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Organisms surrounded by clear space In histiocytes2 to 5 μm in diameter Thick cell wall GMS + and PAS +
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Further Work-up
• Bone marrow biopsy
– Histoplasmosis
• Esophageal biopsy
– Histoplasmosis
• Tissue culture
– Histoplasmosis capsulatum
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Treatment
• Amphotericin B
• Intraconazole
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Histoplasmosis
• Airborne pathogen
• Inhalation of spores
• Soil contaminated with bat or bird excrement
• Farmers, gardeners, construction workers, HVAC, cave explorers
• Ohio River Valley: OH, IN, MO, MS (+ skin tests in 80% of population)
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3 Forms
• Acute or primary: – Flu-like symptoms– Most recover without treatment – Many unaware of infection
• Chronic: – Pulmonary– Can be fatal
• Disseminated: – Extra-pulmonary involvement – Often fatal
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Histoplasmosis
• Calcified lung nodules, similar to TB
• Fibrosing mediastinitis
• Ocular involvement:
– Scarring of retina
– Subretinal hemorrhage
– Leads to blindness (like macular degeneration)
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What I learned
• Histoplasmosis often causes oral ulcers
• Do special stains!
• Recommend tissue cultures