Cutaneous balloon-cell melanoma metastases to the axillary lymph node: Exploring cytomorphologic features and differential diagnoses on fine needle aspiration biopsy

Cytopathology. 2024 May;35(3):427-431. doi: 10.1111/cyt.13354. Epub 2024 Jan 9.

Authors

Nada Shaker¹, Zaibo Li¹, Judith Bamporiki², Omar P Sangueza³, Abdul Abid⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center/James Cancer Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
² University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Departments of Dermatology and Pathology, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
⁴ Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Health, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

PMID: 38196078
DOI: 10.1111/cyt.13354

No abstract available

Keywords: Balloon cell melanoma; Balloon cell melanoma cytology; FNA; lymph nodes metastasis; malignant melanoma; melanoma; metastatic melanoma.

MeSH terms

Axilla / pathology
Biopsy, Fine-Needle
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Lymph Nodes / pathology
Melanoma* / diagnosis
Melanoma* / pathology
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
Skin Neoplasms* / diagnosis
Skin Neoplasms* / pathology