病理
结节性硬化
淋巴管平滑肌瘤病
血管平滑肌脂肪瘤
肾上腺
嗜酸性
医学
血管周围上皮样细胞
免疫组织化学
上皮样细胞
生物
内科学
肾
作者
Craig Wakefield,Peter M. Sadow,Jason L. Hornick,Christopher D.�M. Fletcher,Justine A. Barletta,William J. Anderson
标识
DOI:10.1097/pas.0000000000002097
摘要
PEComas are a family of mesenchymal neoplasms composed of histologically distinctive perivascular epithelioid cells which demonstrate myomelanocytic differentiation. PEComas of the adrenal gland are very rare and can represent a considerable diagnostic challenge given their morphologic overlap with more common adrenal cortical neoplasms. We present the clinicopathologic features of 7 primary adrenal PEComas. The cohort comprised 5 male and 2 female patients with a median age of 63 years (range: 31 to 71 y). One patient had Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome and another had Lynch syndrome; however, none had a history of tuberous sclerosis complex. Histologically, tumors showed nested and/or sheet-like growth and epithelioid cytomorphology with pale-to-eosinophilic granular cytoplasm. Two tumors had an admixed spindle cell component. There was a median of 4 mitoses per 10 HPFs (range: 0 to 8). Necrosis was present in 4 tumors and lymphovascular invasion in 1. Four tumors were classified as malignant. By immunohistochemistry, tumors were positive for HMB-45 (3/7), MITF (3/3), Melan-A (3/7), smooth muscle actin (5/7), desmin (5/7), and caldesmon (1/1). Two tumors were positive for TFE3 (2/4). Inhibin and SF1 were negative in all tumors assessed (0/6). Of 3 patients with available clinical follow-up information, 1 patient developed locally recurrent and metastatic disease (at 18 mo) and was alive with persistent disease at the last follow-up. Two patients had no recurrent or metastatic disease at the last follow-up (60 and 25 mo). Although PEComas of the adrenal gland are rare, pathologists need to be alert to this entity in the differential diagnosis of primary adrenocortical neoplasms. In suspected cases, the judicious use of melanocytic and smooth muscle markers, in addition to TFE3 and markers of adrenocortical differentiation (such as SF1 and inhibin) can assist in diagnosis. As in PEComas arising at other visceral sites, an association with tuberous sclerosis complex seems to be uncommon.
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