From the Department of Dermatology Chonbuk University Medical School and Institute for Medical Sciences Chonju, South Korea.
doi: 10.1097/DAD.0b013e3180de474b
To the Editor:
Dr. Bornkessel et al1 reported on bowenoid metastasis of epidermotropic metastatic carcinoma in the June 2006 issue of this journal. They presented their case as the first report of this occurrence. However, I reported on remarkably similar histopathological findings in 1996.2 Figures 2 and 3 in Dr. Bornkessel's case are astonishingly similar to Figures 3D, 4A, and 4B of my case. I think the readers would also be interested in the histopathological similarities outlined in my previous report.
Chull-Wan Ihm, MD
From the Department of Dermatology Chonbuk University Medical School and Institute for Medical Sciences Chonju, South Korea
REFERENCES
1. Bornkessel A, Weyers W, Elsner P, et al. Epidermotropic metastases from squamous cell carcinoma of the lower female genital tract mimicking primary Bowen's carcinoma.
Am J Dermatopathol. 2006;28:220-222.
2. Ihm CW, Park SL, Sung SY, et al. Bowenoid epidermotropic metastatic squamous cell carcinoma.
J Cutan Pathol. 1996;23:479-484.
