Papanastasiou AD, De Filippo MR, Sirinian C, Selenica P, Repanti M, Reis-Filho JS, Weigelt B. Histologic and genomic characterization of a primary mucinous carcinoma of the skin.
EJC SKIN CANCER 2023;
1:100011. [PMID:
38274496 PMCID:
PMC10810048 DOI:
10.1016/j.ejcskn.2023.100011]
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Abstract
Aims
Primary skin mucinous carcinoma is a rare sweat gland neoplasm with a high local recurrence rate after conventional excision but a low distant-metastasis rate. The genetic underpinning of skin mucinous carcinoma is presently unknown. Here, we sought to define whether the repertoire of somatic mutations of a primary mucinous carcinoma of the skin would be similar to that of mucinous breast carcinomas, given the histologic similarities between these tumor types.
Methods and results
The tumor was situated in the dermis and partially involved the subcutaneous fat. Tumor cells were suspended in periodic acid-Schiff diastaseresistant- positive mucin lakes and expressed cytokeratin 7, synaptophysin and estrogen receptor. DNA samples extracted from microdissected tumor and matched normal tissue were subjected to massively parallel sequencing targeting 410 cancer-related genes. The skin mucinous tumor was found to have a low tumor mutation burden, but to harbor a clonal GATA3 frameshift mutation (p. T418Hfs*89) and amplification of FOXA1, genes not uncommonly altered in breast mucinous carcinomas.
Conclusions
In this primary skin mucinous carcinoma, GATA3 and FOXA1 driver genetic events were identified, consistent with a possible developmental relationship between skin and breast mucinous neoplasms.
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