Micropapillary urothelial carcinoma of urinary bladder displays immunophenotypic features of luminal and p53-like subtypes and is not a variant of adenocarcinoma
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Yang Y, Kaimakliotis HZ, Williamson SR, Koch MO, Huang K, Barboza MP, Zhang S, Wang M, Idrees MT, Grignon DJ, Eble JN, Baldridge LA, and Cheng L. Micropapillary urothelial carcinoma of urinary bladder displays immunophenotypic features of luminal and p53-like subtypes and is not a variant of adenocarcinoma. Urol Oncol 2019.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-15-2019
Publication Title
Urologic oncology
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Micropapillary urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder (MPUC) is a rare variant of urothelial carcinoma which has aggressive clinical characteristics. The objective is to investigate the molecular subtypes of MPUC and the impact to the clinical outcome and determine whether MPUC represents a variant of adenocarcinoma.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We evaluated surrogate immunohistochemical markers of luminal, basal, and p53-like subtypes and correlated with prognosis and the expression of markers related to bladder adenocarcinoma and glandular differentiation in 56 cases of MPUC (10 cases of transurethral resection and 46 cases of radical cystectomy). Biomarker expression in co-existing conventional urothelial carcinoma was also analyzed. Cox regression analysis was performed to study the impact of molecular subtype on the clinical outcome.
RESULTS: Thirty-four cases (61%) met criteria for the luminal subtype. Twenty-two cases (39%) displayed a p53-like subtype. In contrast, 40/56 (71%) cases of coexisting conventional urothelial carcinoma were classified as luminal subtype and 16/56 (29%) cases were designated as p53-like subtype. There was no significant survival difference between luminal subtype and p53-like subtype. CDX2, villin, and cadherin 17 were negative in all cases. MUC1 was strongly and diffusely expressed in the stroma-facing surface of MPUC tumor cells in all the cases.
CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that MPUC possesses characteristics of luminal and p53-like subtypes, and does not harbor phenotypic features of the basal subtype. There is no significant difference in the prognosis between luminal and p53-like subtype MPUC. MPUC is not a variant of adenocarcinoma and does not represent a form of glandular differentiation, in contrast to other organ sites.
PubMed ID
31740332
