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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-5-2
pubmed:abstractText
We present clinical, morphological, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural and molecular genetic features of 20 cases of a peculiar form of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (CRCC) with morphology differing from that of conventional CRCC. Microscopically, the typical features of the tumors were microcystic arrangement and formation of adenomatous structures. Microcystic areas were composed of smaller eosinophilic and bigger pale cells having cytological appearance typical of conventional CRCC. Cytological features of the adenomatous structures were mostly different from those of conventional CRCC. They had a typical columnar arrangement with nuclei positioned at the base of the glandular structures and a small amount of a deeply eosinophilic cytoplasm often endowed with brush border facing the lumen of the glands. In addition, all the tumors showed a brown pigmentation. The pigmentation was located mostly extracellularly, where it formed pools of heavy deposits. Microscopic calcifications present in all cases formed psammoma bodies or else the calcifications were more extensive and amorphous in shape. Ultrastructurally, the cells showed features characteristic of CRCC: typical cytoplasmic vesicles were 100-700 nm in size and mitochondria had tubulovesicular, lamellar or circular cristae. Some tumor cells contained dark, variously sized electron-dense pigment granules. Neither melanosomes nor membrane-bound neurosecretory granules were seen. Using fluorescence in-situ hybridization probes for chromosomes 1, 2, 6, 10, 13, 17 and 21, the tumors revealed massive loss of tested chromosomes typical for conventional CRCC. Monosomy of chromosomes 1, 2, 6, 10, 13 and 21 was found in 100, 36, 91, 82, 82, 82 and 64% of cases, respectively. None of the cases showed mutation of exons 9, 11, 13 and 17 of the c-kit gene. The important feature of pigmented microcystic chromophobe renal cell carcinoma is a relatively benign biological behavior and the absence of distant metastases and sarcomatoid transformation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0945-6317
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
446
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
383-93
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Adenoma, Oxyphilic, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Carcinoma, Renal Cell, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Cytoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-DNA Mutational Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Diagnosis, Differential, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Follow-Up Studies, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Immunoenzyme Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Kidney Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Oxyphil Cells, pubmed-meshheading:15756595-Pigments, Biological
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma with microcystic and adenomatous arrangement and pigmentation--a diagnostic pitfall. Morphological, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural and molecular genetic report of 20 cases.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Charles University, Plzen, Czech Republic.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports