1.Clinicopathological characteristics of hepatic perivascular epithelioid cell tumours
Chinese Journal of General Surgery 2017;32(12):1007-1009
Objective To study the clinicopathological characteristics and diagnosis of hepatic perivascular epithelioid cell tumour (PEComa).Methods Retrospective analysis was made on the clinicopathological and immunohistochemical phenotype of the 9 PEComa cases.Results The average age was 39 years,male to female ratio was 1∶ 8.Tumours were grossly well-circumscribed and solid.The maximum diameter were from 1.0 cm to 9.0 cm,with the average of 3.6 cm.The tomours were of nested architecture and composed of uniform epithelioid cells with clear cytoplasm and round nuclei.A subset of tumours was dominated by spindle cells.Thick-wall blood vessels and fat cells were common.Tumour cells were positive for HMB45,MelanA,and SMA (8/8,7/7,4/4).Some of them were positive for S-100 (4/ 8).All of the 9 cases were negitive for hepatocyte (0/9).Ki-67 index of the tumours were below 10% (9/ 9).All 9 cases were followed up from 3 months to 6 years,all were alive and recurrence free.Conclusion Hepatic PEComa is often seen in adult women with some specific histological patterns and immunophenotypes.Definite diagnosis of PEComa can be made by combining clinicopathological characteristics with a panel of immunohistochemical marks.PEComas grow slowly,often responds to surgical resection and rarely recur.
2. Expression of SATB2 in colon adenocarcinoma and its use for differential diagnosis
Fangfang LIU ; Danhua SHEN ; Zhidong GAO ; Haiou ZHAO ; Chao WANG ; Yingjiang YE ; Yingteng MA ; Fangzhou KONG
Chinese Journal of General Surgery 2019;34(10):887-890
Objectives:
To study the significance of SATB2 expression in colon adenocarcinoma and its differential diagnosis function for ovarian metastatic adenocarcinoma.
Methods:
Immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expression level of SATB2 in 130 cases of colon adenocarcinoma. The relationship between the positive rate of SATB2 expression in colon cancer and clinicopathological factors was studied. Forty-seven cases of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, 22 cases of cholangiocarcinoma, 46 cases of gastric adenocarcinoma, and 53 cases of ovarian mucinous adenocarcinoma were studied respectively.
Results:
The positive expression rate of SATB2 in 130 cases of colon adenocarcinoma is 73.8%. The SATB2 expression bears no correlation with gender, age, tumor size, location, histology type, lymph node metastasis, staging, local recurrence, distant metastasis, survival, Kras mutation, and microsatellite stability. The expression rate of SATB2 is significantly higher in well differentiated and moderately differentiated colon adenocarcinoma than that in poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma (χ2=12.804,
3. Combined application of immunohistochemical markers to identify pathologic subtypes of ampullary carcinoma and its clinical significance
Fangfang LIU ; Danhua SHEN ; Hanlin WANG ; Yingteng MA ; Fei YUAN ; Jing LIU ; Lei CHEN ; Qiujing SONG ; Yuanyuan ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Pathology 2019;48(2):92-97
Objective:
To investigate the expression of immunomarkers CK7, CK20, CK17, CDX2, MUC1 and MUC2 in primary adenocarcinoma of the ampulla of Vater, to explore the role of these markers in the histopathologic subclassification of ampullary carcinoma; and to provide biologic basis for precision treatment of patients with different types of ampullary carcinoma.
Methods:
Forty-two cases of primary ampullary carcinoma were collected at Peking University People′s Hospital, from 2012 to 2018 year. There were 22 males and 20 females. Aged range 42 to 88 years old, with mean aged (62±11) years. Among the patients, 6 was high differentiation, 19 median differentiation, and 17 low differentiation. Immunohistochemical studies on the expression of CK7, CK20, CK17, CDX2, MUC1 and MUC2 were performed in 42 cases of primary ampullary carcinoma. The relationship between different ampullary carcinoma subtypes and clinicopathologic survival data was analyzed using SPSS 16.0 statistical software.
Results:
Three histopathologic subtypes were observed. Among 42 cases, 8(19.0%)were classified as intestinal subtype, which showed a positive expression rate of 8/8 for both CK20 and CDX2, and 5/8 for MUC2. Both CK7 and CK17 were weakly expressed in one case (1/8). No expression was observed for MUC1 in this subtype. Twenty-two (52.4%,22/42) cases were classified as pancreaticobiliary subtype, which showed a positive expression rate of 100.0%(22/22) for both CK7 and MUC1, and 90.9% (20/22) for CK17. No expression was observed for CK20, CDX2 and MUC2.The remaining 12 (28.6%) cases were classified as mixed subtype, which showed variable expression patterns. The expression frequencies of these 6 immunomarkers in different subtypes of ampullary carcinoma did not correlate with various clinicopathologic factors such as patient gender and age, tumor size, histologic differentiation, pancreatic and bile duct invasion, or the depth of duodenal invasion. However, stage Ⅲ+Ⅳ diseases were more commonly seen in pancreaticobiliary type (63.6%,14/22) than intestinal type (2/8) and mixed type (3/9; χ2=6.508,