KROK 1 2010 – Question 100 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A 45 year old man consulted a doctor about a plaque-like formation on his neck. Histological examination of a skin bioptate revealed clusters of round and oval tumour cells with a narrow border of basophilic cytoplasm resembling of cells of basal epidermal layer. What tumour is it?
- A. Trichoepithelioma
- B. Hydroadenoma
- C. Syringoadenoma
- D. Epidermal cancer
- E. Basal cell carcinoma
Hint
Ask which skin tumour is built of nests of small, scant-cytoplasm cells imitating a normal epidermal layer, and think about its usual behaviour.
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