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Chemotherapy reaction induced by ixabepilone,a microtubule stabilizing agent,mimicking extramammary Paget's disease in a patient with breast carcinoma
Authors:Jillian W. Millsop  Victoria R. Sharon  Tatyana Petukhova  Maxwell A. Fung  Maija Kiuru
Affiliation:1. Department of Dermatology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA;2. Department of Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA;3. Maija Kiuru, MD, PhD,;4. Department of Dermatology, University of California, Davis, 3301 C Street, Suite 1400, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA;5. Tel: +916 734 6373;6. Fax: +916 442 5702;7. e‐mail:
Abstract:The histopathologic characteristics of reactions caused by the many novel anticancer agents are under‐recognized. We report a case of a 67‐year‐old female with locally advanced metastatic breast cancer, who initially presented with an extensive reticulated erythematous patch on the trunk caused by intravascular metastases confirmed by a skin biopsy. Owing to disease progression, she was started on ixabepilone, a mitotic inhibitor. While receiving ixabepilone, another skin biopsy was obtained and initially interpreted as extramammary Paget's disease. However, the biopsy showed metaphase arrest of numerous keratinocytes in the basilar and suprabasilar epidermis. Atypical epithelial cells were only present in the intravascular spaces similar to the initial biopsy. Given the temporal association between the initiation of ixabepilone therapy and the epidermal mitotic arrest, a diagnosis of chemotherapy reaction to ixabepilone was rendered. Ixabepilone is an analog of epothilone, a microtubule stabilizer causing mitotic arrest of the cell cycle approved for the treatment of metastatic and locally advanced treatment‐resistant breast cancer. The demonstration of epidermal mitotic arrest caused by ixabepilone is without precedent. The case emphasizes the importance of considering a chemotherapy reaction in the histologic differential diagnosis of epidermal mitotic arrest in a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy.
Keywords:chemotherapy  extramammary Paget's disease  ixabepilone  metaphase arrest  mitosis  skin
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