Llamas-Velasco Mar, Requena Luis, Adam Julie, Frizzell Norma, Hartmann Arndt, Mentzel Thomas
*Department of Dermatology, Hospital De La Princesa, Madrid, Spain; †Department of Dermatology, Fundación Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain; ‡Department of Pathology, Henry Wellcome Building for Molecular Physiology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; §Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neurosciences, School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; ¶Institute of Pathology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany; and ‖Dermatopathologie Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Am J Dermatopathol. 2016 Dec;38(12):887-891. doi: 10.1097/DAD.0000000000000580.
Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer (HLRCC) syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by heterozygotic germline mutations in fumarate hydratase (FH) with incomplete penetrance, and clinically challenging to diagnose. Immunohistochemical stainings may favor an earlier diagnosis.
The authors have tested 31 smooth muscle neoplasms. Ten of the 13 lesions from patients with HLRCC syndrome showed negative FH staining. Most sporadic piloleiomyomas presented strongly positive FH staining although 5 cases were negative. Sensitivity of FH staining in our series is 83.3% but specificity is 75%. Anti-S-(2-succino)-cysteine (2SC) showed the opposite intensity staining pattern and showed great correlation with anti-FH (rho spearman = -0.797). Anti-2SC staining increased the diagnostic accuracy in 19% of the cases.
The main limitation of this study is the lack additional clinical data to further classify the cases as the case inclusion was histopathological.
Negative FH staining could indicate a high risk of HLRCC but it could also suggest the presence of a syndrome in up to 25% of sporadic cases. Thus, when there is a doubtful case, anti-2SC may be added to exclude the syndrome if a negative staining is found.
遗传性平滑肌瘤病和肾细胞癌(HLRCC)综合征是一种常染色体显性疾病,由延胡索酸水合酶(FH)的杂合子种系突变引起,具有不完全外显率,临床诊断具有挑战性。免疫组织化学染色可能有助于早期诊断。
作者检测了31例平滑肌肿瘤。HLRCC综合征患者的13个病变中有10个显示FH染色阴性。大多数散发性毛发平滑肌瘤呈现强阳性FH染色,尽管有5例为阴性。在我们的系列研究中,FH染色的敏感性为83.3%,但特异性为75%。抗S-(2-琥珀酰基)-半胱氨酸(2SC)显示出相反的染色强度模式,并且与抗FH显示出高度相关性(斯皮尔曼相关系数rho=-0.797)。抗2SC染色在19%的病例中提高了诊断准确性。
本研究的主要局限性是缺乏额外的临床数据来进一步对病例进行分类,因为病例纳入是基于组织病理学的。
FH染色阴性可能表明HLRCC风险高,但也可能提示高达25%的散发性病例存在该综合征。因此,当遇到可疑病例时,如果发现阴性染色,可加用抗2SC以排除该综合征。