- Exuberant Smooth Muscle Cells in Fibroadenoma of the Breast: A Case Report.
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Ga Eon Kim, Young Kim, Eun Hui Jeong, Jo Heon Kim, Min Ho Park, Ji Shin Lee
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Korean J Pathol. 2010;44(4):431-434.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4132/KoreanJPathol.2010.44.4.431
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- Smooth muscle cell metaplasia is an extremely rare form of stromal differentiation in fibroadenomas. We describe a case of fibroadenoma with exuberant smooth muscle cells in a 72-year-old woman. The mass was located in the upper central portion of the left breast. It was well circumscribed and its greatest dimension was 3 cm. Histologically, the glandular elements resembled the appearance of fibroadenoma, but the stromal elements were composed of spindle cell bundles with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm and elongated cigar-shaped nuclei. Neither mitotic activity nor cellular atypia was seen. The stromal cells were immunohistochemically positive for smooth muscle actin, calponin, desmin, and estrogen receptor-beta, but negative for CD34, S-100 protein, p63, CD10, estrogen receptor-alpha, progesterone receptor and cytokeratin. These results proved that the stromal cells showed features of smooth muscle cells.
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Barbara Brunetti, Luisa Vera Muscatello, Louis J. DeTolla, Giancarlo Avallone, Isabel Pires
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- Utility of Promoter Hypermethylation for Differentiating Malignant and Benign Effusions in Liquid-Based Cytology Specimens.
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Ga Eon Kim, Jo Heon Kim, Yeong Hui Kim, Chan Choi, Ji Shin Lee
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Korean J Pathol. 2010;44(3):315-321.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4132/KoreanJPathol.2010.44.3.315
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Making the cytologic differentiation between benign and malignant effusions can be difficult. Because promoter hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes is a frequent epigenetic event in many human cancers, it could serve as a marker for the diagnosis of cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of detecting promoter hypermethylation as a diagnostic tool with using liquid-based cytology samples for differentiating between malignant and benign effusions.
METHODS
A multiplex, nested, methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction analysis was used to examine promoter methylation of 4 genes (retinoic acid receptor-beta, [RAR-beta], adenomatous polyposis coli [APC], Twist and high in normal-1 [HIN-1]) in malignant (n = 85) and benign (n = 31) liquid-based cytology samples.
RESULTS
The frequencies of hypermethylation of RAR-beta, APC, Twist and HIN-1 were significantly higher in the malignant effusions than in the benign effusions (p < 0.001 for each). On the receiver-operating characteristic analysis, the area under the curve (AUC) for APC was the greatest. The AUC for the best two-gene combination (APC/HIN-1) was not statistically different from the AUC for the best individual tumor suppressor gene (APC).
CONCLUSIONS
This study suggests that promoter methylation analysis on residual liquid-based effusion samples may be a feasible approach to detect malignant effusions, and that APC is the best marker for differentiating between malignant and benign effusions.
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Hrishikesh Dadhich, Pampa Ch Toi, Neelaiah Siddaraju, Kalidas Sevvanthi
Diagnostic Cytopathology.2016; 44(11): 874. CrossRef
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