Salim Sadia, Liu Beiqing, Mahmoodi Mandana, Asad Haider, Hou Steve J
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
World J Surg Oncol. 2006 Jul 5;4:39. doi: 10.1186/1477-7819-4-39.
The presence of tactile corpuscle-like structures in Schwannomas, Neurofibromas and Neuroid Intradermal Melanocytic Nevi is well-documented. We report a case describing the presence of such structures in the lamina propria of grossly normal gastric mucosa.
A 30 year-old male underwent esophagogastrectomy for carcinoma. Examination of hematoxylin and eosin stained sections reveal tactile corpuscle-like structures in the mucosa adjacent to the main tumor mass.
This is a rare phenomenon and a literature search revealed only one paper describing such structures in the benign colonic mucosa of a colectomy done for carcinoma. We did not come across any cases in the literature describing such structures in gastrointestinal specimen resected for reasons other than carcinoma. To our knowledge this would be the first case reporting the existence of tactile corpuscles-like structures in gastric mucosa.
在施万细胞瘤、神经纤维瘤和神经样皮内黑素细胞痣中存在触觉小体样结构已有充分记录。我们报告一例病例,描述了在大体正常胃黏膜的固有层中存在此类结构。
一名30岁男性因癌症接受了食管胃切除术。苏木精和伊红染色切片检查显示,在主要肿瘤块相邻的黏膜中有触觉小体样结构。
这是一种罕见现象,文献检索仅发现一篇论文描述了在因癌症而行结肠切除术的良性结肠黏膜中存在此类结构。我们在文献中未遇到任何因癌症以外的原因切除的胃肠道标本中存在此类结构的病例。据我们所知,这将是首例报告胃黏膜中存在触觉小体样结构的病例。