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Paget's disease of the scrotum: a case exhibiting positive prostate‐specific antigen staining and associated prostatic adenocarcinoma
Author(s) -
Sharon J. Allan,
K M McLaren,
R. D. Aldridge
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2133.1998.02187.x
Subject(s) - medicine , scrotum , extramammary paget's disease , pathology , staining , prostate , prostate specific antigen , adenocarcinoma , antigen , positive staining , carcinoma , immunohistochemistry , disease , cancer , anatomy , immunology
A 75‐year‐old man with carcinoma of the prostate presented with a pruritic, erythematous plaque involving the scrotal skin. Histological examination revealed extramammary Paget's disease. The intraepidermal tumour cells expressed prostate‐specific antigen in keeping with a prostatic origin.