The metastatic dissemination of a squamous cell carcinoma arising from an epidermal cyst and subsequent failure to respond to programmed death 1 inhibition

Melissa A Lumish; Mark A Anderson; Patrick S Rush; Florian J Fintelmann; Lyn Duncan; Ryan J Sullivan; Meghan J Mooradian

doi:10.1016/j.jdcr.2019.01.032

The metastatic dissemination of a squamous cell carcinoma arising from an epidermal cyst and subsequent failure to respond to programmed death 1 inhibition

JAAD Case Rep. 2019 Apr 5;5(4):375-378. doi: 10.1016/j.jdcr.2019.01.032. eCollection 2019 Apr.

Authors

Melissa A Lumish¹, Mark A Anderson², Patrick S Rush³, Florian J Fintelmann², Lyn Duncan³, Ryan J Sullivan^{4

5}, Meghan J Mooradian^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Medical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

No abstract available

Keywords: CT, computed tomography; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; PD-1, programmed death 1; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma; TMB, tumor mutation burden; epidermal cyst; immunotherapy; malignant transformation; ruptured epidermal cyst; squamous cell carcinoma.

Publication types

Case Reports