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This case may represent an atypical Apocrine Mixed Tumor (AMT) with prominent myxoid changes. To call a lesion malignant AMT, you need have the benign component, this case for sure has those parts....but malignant AMT is extremely rare skin tumor which in my opinion is still over-diagnosed. To call it malignant AMT, besides the benign component of AMT, you need frank malignant carcinoma component, either apocrine adenocarcinoma, myoepithelial carcinoma, or sarcomatoid carcinoma. you need really UGLY tumor cells with multiple mitoses including abnormal ones, you need infiltrative growth pattern which I did not see in this case.(maybe there is, just not shown here).. so given the focal atypia present ( remember even benign apocrine neoplasms are normally "atypical" in histology), I would conservatively give it a dx of atypical AMT or AMT with atypia. Since the biopsy edges are involved, it need be out anyway,,,