Correlation of different high-grade components with clinicopathological characteristics and genetic variations in stage Ⅰ lung adenocarcinoma
10.13315/j.cnki.cjcep.2023.11.010
- VernacularTitle:Ⅰ期肺腺癌中不同高级别成分与临床病理特征、基因变异的相关性分析
- Author:
Ling LIN
1
;
Yankui LIU
;
Xiuqin TU
;
Xiaoyan GUO
;
Xiaowei QI
;
Botao HUANG
Author Information
1. 江南大学附属医院病理科,无锡 214122
- Keywords:
lung neoplasm;
adenocarcinomas;
micropapillary;
complex glands;
solid;
gene
- From:
Chinese Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology
2023;39(11):1334-1339
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Purpose To investigate the clinicopathological characteristics and genetic variations of stage Ⅰ lung adenocarci-noma with high-grade components,according to the new grading system of the WHO classification of thoracic tumors(2021).Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on the clini-cal data of 785 patients with stage Ⅰ lung adenocarcinoma.HE,EnVision immunohistochemistry and Victoria blue staining were used,common genetic variation(EGFR/KRAS/ALK/ROS1/RET)were detected by PCR method.The correlation between different high-grade components and clinical pathological charac-teristics as well as genetic variations in stage Ⅰ lung adenocarci-noma were analyzed.Results A total of 785 cases of stage Ⅰlung adenocarcinoma were enrolled,including 332 cases with high-grade components and 453 cases without high-grade compo-nents.Among the adenocarcinomas with high-grade components,there were 7 cases of grade 1,150 cases of grade 2,and 175 ca-ses of grade 3.The positive rates of tumor cells spreading through airspace(STAS),vascular invasion,and pleural inva-sion in grade 2 adenocarcinoma with two high-grade components(61.5%,21.2%,26.9%)were significantly higher than that of the adenocarcinomas with only one high-grade component(20.4%,7.1%,5.1%),but there was no significant differ-ence in grade 3 adenocarcinoma.The positive rate(39.0%)of STAS in the micropapillary group with one high-grade component in grade 2 adenocarcinoma was significantly higher than that in the complex glandular group(9.3%)and the solid group(0),while there was no significant difference between the latter two groups.Among the three groups there were no statistically signif-icant differences in grade 3 adenocarcinoma.In 167 cases of ad-enocarcinoma with two or more high-grade components,there were 74 cases(44.3%)of complex glands combined with mi-cropapillary components,67 cases(40.1%)of complex glands combined with solid components,8 cases(4.8%)of micropap-illary combined with solid components,and 18 cases(10.8%)of three types of components.The positive rates of pleural inva-sion and KRAS gene mutation or fusion gene(ALK/ROS1/RET)in the group of complex glands combined with solid(49.3%,28.3%)were significantly higher as compared to those in the group of complex glands combined with micropapil-lary(27.0%,8.6%).The positive rate of psammoma bodies in the group with high-grade components(24.7%)was significant-ly higher than that in those without high-grade components(3.5%,P<0.001),and the positive rate of psammoma bodies in group of gene mutation(EGFR/KRAS)(40.4%)was higher than that in the no-gene mutation group(26.7%,P<0.05).Conclusion The clinicopathological features of different high-grade components in stage Ⅰ lung adenocarcinoma are not identi-cal,suggesting that their invasiveness may have different biologi-cal backgrounds.Characteristic morphological observations are helpful.