Paget’s disease

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Large cells, may be solitary or grouped in clusters

Upward migration within the epidermis, resembling a cluster of balloons released into the sky

  • Paler cells with abundant cytoplasm

Paget’s disease

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  • Round, voluminous cells with pale cytoplasm

    Nuclei show open and vacuolated chromatin

Paget’s disease

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  • Mitotic activity is sparse

Paget’s disease

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  • Large mucin-filled vacuole displaces the nucleus to the periphery (also known as signet-ring cell)

Extramammary Paget’s disease

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Absence of dyskeratosis

  • Intraepidermal proliferation of large pale cells with abundant cytoplasm

  • Upward migration of these cells within the epidermis

Extramammary Paget’s disease

CK7 positive