Back to Search
Start Over
Challenges and controversies in the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma: Part 2. Malignant mesothelioma subtypes, pleural synovial sarcoma, molecular and prognostic aspects of mesothelioma, BAP1, aquaporin-1 and microRNA
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical Pathology. 66:854-861
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2013.
-
Abstract
- Pleural malignant mesothelioma (MM) includes several unusual and even rare but distinctive histological subtypes, in addition to the usual subdivision into epithelioid, biphasic and sarcomatoid MM. Criteria for discrimination between fibrous pleuritis versus desmoplastic mesothelioma include evidence of neoplastic invasion for diagnosis of desmoplastic MM, but this histological assessment is complicated by the recently-described 'fake fat phenomenon' in cases of fibrous pleuritis. The distinction between biphasic and monophasic synovial sarcoma of the pleura versus biphasic and sarcomatoid MM can be problematical and is most cogently based upon molecular detection of the t(X;18) translocation, whereas a clear diagnosis of MM for a pleural tumour histologically resembling synovial sarcoma is favoured by a negative result for this translocation and, probably, microRNA evidence supportive of a diagnosis of MM. Aquaporin-1 (AQP1) is a molecule involved in the growth of MM cells, and yet is a factor reported to correlate with improved survival rates for MM with an epithelioid component, in comparison to AQP1-poor MM, as assessed from AQP1 expression by epithelioid MM cells only (apart from co-expression by stromal endothelial cells in addition to the tumour cells). Recent reports have also focused upon germline mutations in the BRCA1-associated protein 1 (BAP1), not only in cases of familial mesothelioma, but also BAP1 deletion in sporadic MM. Prognostic factors for MM include not only the histological subtypes, but other independent variables that include (among others), AQP1 expression by mesothelioma cells, the clinical status of the patient, the serum neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio and blood thrombocytosis.
- Subjects :
- Mesothelioma
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Stromal cell
Pleural Neoplasms
Lymphocyte
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Diagnosis, Differential
Sarcoma, Synovial
Germline mutation
Monophasic Synovial Sarcoma
Biomarkers, Tumor
medicine
Humans
Pleural Synovial Sarcoma
BAP1
Aquaporin 1
business.industry
Tumor Suppressor Proteins
General Medicine
Prognosis
medicine.disease
Synovial sarcoma
Pleural Effusion, Malignant
MicroRNAs
medicine.anatomical_structure
Mutation
Pleura
business
Ubiquitin Thiolesterase
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14724146 and 00219746
- Volume :
- 66
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1e18d3fbf3255effd0b83d55e3e4ebe3