Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Carolinas Pathology, Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Head Neck Pathol. 2021 Mar;15(1):267-274. doi: 10.1007/s12105-020-01152-0. Epub 2020 Mar 18.
Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma (FDCS) is a rare entity which can share morphologic features with non-keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma. Recent reports suggest that up to half of FDCSs show immunohistochemical positivity for p16 (Zhang et al., in Hum Pathol 66:40-47, 2017), a stain that is conventionally used in the risk stratification of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC). Herein, we report a case of p16-positive FDCS with clinical and histomorphologic overlap with human papilloma virus (HPV)-related OPSCC.
滤泡树突状细胞肉瘤(FDCS)是一种罕见的实体瘤,其形态学特征可与非角化性鳞状细胞癌相似。最近的报告表明,多达一半的 FDCS 表现为 p16 免疫组织化学阳性(Zhang 等人,发表于《Hum Pathol》66:40-47, 2017),p16 是一种常用于口咽鳞状细胞癌(OPSCC)风险分层的染色剂。在此,我们报告一例 p16 阳性 FDCS,其临床表现和组织形态学与 HPV 相关的 OPSCC 重叠。