scholarly journals Extramammary Paget’s Disease in the Genital Area of a Male: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Zhao ◽  
Bo-ping Wen ◽  
Sen-yin Xu

Extramammary Paget’s disease (EMPD) is an uncommon intraepithelial malignancy that is rarely found in the male. Currently, there is very little knowledge pertaining to EMPD imaging, particularly in cases that involve the scrotum. Here, a 67-year-old man with lichenification on his left scrotum confirmed to be EMPD was reviewed. Bloodwork did not return a positive result, but syphilis-specific antibodies were found. Conventional high-frequency ultrasound (US) and contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) imaging were utilized to determine the lesion size and blood perfusion. In the present case, the lesion’s size and involvement were vividly depicted by CEUS, while results obtained by conventional US were grossly underestimated. Consequently, multimodal imaging assessment is likely to provide more accurate diagnoses for uncommon diseases, such as EMPD, and to aid in clinical decision-making.

1984 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1118-1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshihisa FUJII ◽  
Nobuyuki SHIRAISHI ◽  
Etsuji MATSUNAGA ◽  
Susumu TAKAYASU ◽  
Toshitaka NAKAMURA

2007 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-276
Author(s):  
Satoko KUMAZAWA ◽  
Kou DAN ◽  
Teiichi MASUDA ◽  
Kazunori URABE ◽  
Masutaka FURUE

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-226
Author(s):  
AYA KAWAGUCHI ◽  
JUN AKIBA ◽  
REIICHIRO KONDO ◽  
EIJI SADASHIMA ◽  
SACHIKO OGASAWARA ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
J. S. Anjana ◽  
P. Rema ◽  
S. Suchetha ◽  
J. Siva Ranjith ◽  
Amrita B. Rao ◽  
...  

Diagnostics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1086
Author(s):  
Shun Ohmori ◽  
Yu Sawada ◽  
Natsuko Saito-Sasaki ◽  
Sayaka Sato ◽  
Yoko Minokawa ◽  
...  

Extramammary Paget’s disease is recognized as an apocrine-origin cutaneous tumor and is localized in the intraepithelial skin lesion. However, its advanced form is intractable, and there is currently no therapeutic option with a satisfactory level of clinical outcome. Therefore, it is of great importance to identify a potential biomarker to estimate tumor advancement in extramammary Paget’s disease. Dermcidin is an antimicrobial peptide derived from the eccrine gland and is identified as a biomarker in various malignancies. To investigate the potential of dermcidin in extramammary Paget’s disease, we investigated dermcidin expression in tumors using the immunostaining technique. Although previous studies have reported that extramammary Paget’s disease has no positive staining against dermcidin, 14 out of 60 patients showed positive staining of dermcidin in our study. To clarify the characteristics of positive dermcidin in extramammary Paget’s disease, we investigated the clinical characteristics of positive dermcidin extramammary Paget’s disease patients. Positive dermcidin patients showed a significantly high frequency of lymph node metastasis. We next investigated the impact of positive dermcidin on overall survival. Univariate analysis identified that positive dermcidin showed a significantly increased hazard ratio in overall survival, suggesting that dermcidin might be a prognostic factor for extramammary Paget’s disease.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 739
Author(s):  
Hiroki Hashimoto ◽  
Yumiko Kaku-Ito ◽  
Masutaka Furue ◽  
Takamichi Ito

The efficacy and survival impact of conventional chemotherapies for metastatic extramammary Paget’s disease (EMPD) have not been fully elucidated. This study examined the long-term outcome of chemotherapy for this indication. We conducted a retrospective review of 21 patients with distant metastatic EMPD (14 patients treated with chemotherapy and 7 patients treated without chemotherapy). The response rate of chemotherapy and patient survival were statistically analyzed. Among the 14 patients treated with chemotherapy, 12, 1, and 1 patient received docetaxel, paclitaxel, and low-dose 5-fluorouracil plus cisplatin, respectively, as the first-line treatment. The response rate was 50.0% (7/14), and the disease control rate was 64.3% (9/14). The median progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were 16.8 and 27.9 months, respectively. Multivariate analyses revealed that chemotherapy was a significant factor for prolonged PFS (hazard ratio (HR) 0.22, p = 0.038) but not for OS (HR = 1.71, p = 0.54). Ten patients (71.4%) had severe (grade 3 or 4) hematological adverse events. Although conventional chemotherapy improved PFS, we failed to show a significantly improved OS. Considering the frequent adverse events of conventional chemotherapy, targeted therapy may become a mainstay for the treatment of metastatic EMPD.


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