Department of Pathology, Colentina University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania;
Rom J Morphol Embryol. 2021 Oct-Dec;62(4):971-979. doi: 10.47162/RJME.62.4.09.
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Colonic serrated lesions are premalignant lesions, using an alternative malignization pathway, including multiple genetic and epigenetic alterations, as: mismatch repair deficiency due to MutL homolog 1 (MLH1) promoter methylation, tumor protein p53 (TP53) mutations, activating mutations of v-Raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B (BRAF) and Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS). Our study aims to evaluate MLH1, BRAF and p53 immunohistochemical (IHC) status in sessile serrated lesions (SSLs), with and without dysplasia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a retrospective case-control study including 20 SSLs with dysplasia and 20 SSLs without dysplasia (matching sex and age). IHC expression of MLH1, BRAF and p53 was evaluated as the percent of nuclear loss of MLH1, cytoplasmic positivity of BRAF and nuclear positivity of p53. Data concerning age, sex, localization of the lesion, dysplasia and IHC results were statistically processed using Microsoft Excel. RESULTS: We had very polymorphous patterns of IHC expression for BRAF, MLH1 and p53, especially in the dysplastic group. Thus, two patients were BRAF+∕MLH1-∕p53+, three were BRAF+∕MLH1-∕p53-, one was BRAF+∕MLH1+∕p53- and six were BRAF+∕MLH1+∕p53+. Dysplastic lesions without BRAF mutation exhibited the following phenotype: one case BRAF-∕MLH1-∕p53+, four BRAF-∕MLH1-∕p53- and three BRAF-∕MLH1+∕p53+. In the control group (SSLs without dysplasia), there was a more homogenous distribution of cases: eight cases BRAF+∕MLH1+∕p53-, seven BRAF-∕MLH1+∕p53-, one BRAF-∕MLH1-∕p53+, two BRAF-∕MLH1-∕p53- and two BRAF-∕MLH1+∕p53+. CONCLUSIONS: There are more routes on the serrated pathway, with different mutations and time of acquisition of each genetic or epigenetic lesion with the same morphological result. These lesions should be stratified according to their risk to poor outcome and their need to further surveillance.
背景与目的:结肠锯齿状病变是癌前病变,通过一种替代的恶性转化途径,包括多种遗传和表观遗传改变,如:由于 MutL 同源物 1(MLH1)启动子甲基化导致错配修复缺陷、肿瘤蛋白 p53(TP53)突变、v-Raf 鼠肉瘤病毒癌基因同源物 B(BRAF)和 Kirsten 大鼠肉瘤病毒癌基因同源物(KRAS)的激活突变。本研究旨在评估无或有锯齿状不典型增生的无蒂锯齿状病变(SSLs)中 MLH1、BRAF 和 p53 的免疫组织化学(IHC)状态。 材料与方法:这是一项回顾性病例对照研究,纳入 20 例有锯齿状不典型增生的 SSL 患者和 20 例无锯齿状不典型增生的 SSL 患者(性别和年龄匹配)。通过核 MLH1 缺失的百分比、细胞质 BRAF 阳性和核 p53 阳性评估 MLH1、BRAF 和 p53 的 IHC 表达。使用 Microsoft Excel 统计处理有关年龄、性别、病变部位、不典型增生和 IHC 结果的数据。 结果:我们发现 BRAF、MLH1 和 p53 的 IHC 表达模式非常多样,尤其是在有锯齿状不典型增生的组中。因此,有 2 例患者 BRAF+∕MLH1-∕p53+,3 例患者 BRAF+∕MLH1-∕p53-,1 例患者 BRAF+∕MLH1+∕p53-,6 例患者 BRAF+∕MLH1+∕p53+。无 BRAF 突变的锯齿状不典型增生病变表现为以下表型:1 例患者 BRAF-∕MLH1-∕p53+,4 例患者 BRAF-∕MLH1-∕p53-,3 例患者 BRAF-∕MLH1+∕p53+。在对照组(无锯齿状不典型增生的 SSLs)中,病例分布更为均匀:8 例患者 BRAF+∕MLH1+∕p53+,7 例患者 BRAF-∕MLH1+∕p53+,1 例患者 BRAF-∕MLH1-∕p53+,2 例患者 BRAF-∕MLH1-∕p53-,2 例患者 BRAF-∕MLH1+∕p53+。 结论:锯齿状途径有更多的途径,每种遗传或表观遗传改变的发生时间和突变不同,但具有相同的形态学结果。这些病变应根据其不良预后的风险和进一步监测的需要进行分层。
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