Bilateral inguinal lymph nodes with extensive calcification obscuring malignancy in a patient with epidermodysplasia verruciformis

• Author Details:   
• Malvika Shastri
• Reetu Kundu ^*

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Malignancies causing inguinal lymphadenopathy in females are primarily carcinomas of the uterine cervix and vagina. Rarely, malignancies from other sites can involve inguinal lymph nodes and show non-classical findings like exuberant calcification. The case describes the cytological findings of extensive calcification in metastatic deposits of squamous cell carcinoma of the skin involving bilateral inguinal lymph nodes in a patient with epidermodysplasia verruciformis, a rare event. Despite difficult needling, the yield was sufficient to clinch the diagnosis on fine-needle aspiration cytology.

Keywords: Calcification, Squamous cell carcinoma, Epidermodysplasia verruciformis, Fine-needle aspiration cytology.