Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages 933-937Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000213440.78407.27
Keywords
gastrointestinal stromal tumor; GIST; KIT; PDGFRA; mutation analysis; CGH; multicentric
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Most sporadic gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) occur solitary, whereas a multicentric appearance is suspicious for a familial or syndromal setting such as with germline mutations of proto-oncogene tyrosine protein kinase Kit (KIT) or platelet derived growth factor receptor alpha (PDGFRA), or even for metastases. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether multicentric sporadic GISTs are of clonal origin. Four patients with 1 clinically apparent tumor (mean size 5.6cm) and I to 3 further small incidental tumors (mean size 0.7cm) were analysed by mutation analysis and comparative genomic hybridization for mutations of KIT and PDGFRA and chromosomal imbalances in their tumors. No clinicopathologic features have been found being indicative of one of the established familial or syndromal GIST variants. Each of the small GISTs were localized in the muscularis propria, and were visible from the serosal but not from the mucosal side. Different mutations of KIT and PDGFRA were present among individual tumors of each patient, and germline mutation of KIT and PDGFRA could be excluded. Comparative genomic hybridization revealed a mean count of 7 chromosomal imbalances in the clinically apparent tumors compared with a mean count of 0.3 in the small incidental counterparts. Sporadic GISTs can appear multicentric by coincidence. They are an important differential diagnosis to familial and syndromal GIST variants, or even to peritoneal metastases. Different mutations of KIT and PDGFRA among individual tumors in I patient refer to different clonal origin of multicentric sporadic GISTs. The type of mutation of KIT and PDGFRA was independent of tumor size, whereas small GISTs < 1 cm rarely had genomic imbalances.
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