Primary cutaneous apocrine carcinoma is a rare malignancy. This study of 24 examples suggests that the prognosis is not always poor and that grading criteria devised for breast carcinoma may have utility in this group of malignancies. Furthermore, steroid receptor expression should be investigated in these tumors, particularly if a tumor is unlikely to be controlled by surgery alone.

Robson A, Lazar AJ, Nagi JB, Hanby A, Grayson W, Feinmesser M, Granter SR, Seed P, Warneke CL, McKee PH, Calonje E.

*Department of Dermatopathology, St Johnʼs Institute of Dermatology, St Thomasʼ Hospital ‡Department of Pathology, Guyʼs Hospital ♯Fetal Health Research Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Kingʼs College, London, UK †Sections of Dermatopathology and Soft Tissue/Sarcoma Pathology, Departments of Pathology and Dermatology, Sarcoma Research Center, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (UTMDACC) **Department of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics UTMDACC, Houston, TX §Division of Anatomical Pathology, School of Pathology, University of Witwatersrand and the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa ∥Department of Pathology, Rabin Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel ¶Department of Pathology, Brighamʼs and Womenʼs Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.