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Deng Y, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Yang N, Ji X, Wu B. Undifferentiated hepatic carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells: A case report and literature review. Front Oncol 2023; 12:1018617. [PMID: 36698409 PMCID: PMC9868471 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1018617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Osteoclast-like giant cell tumor (OGCT) is a common bone tumor, occasionally observed in some extraosseous organs, but rarely involving the digestive system, especially the liver. Previously reported osteoclast-like giant cell carcinoma of the liver often coexists with sarcomatoid or hepatocellular carcinoma. Undifferentiated liver tumors with osteoclast-like giant cells (OGCs) are extremely rare. Due to its rarity, there is no consensus for diagnosis and treatment of undifferentiated liver tumors with OGCs. Definitive diagnosis comes from surgery, so there is often a long delay in diagnosis following the occurrence of symptoms. This case describes an extremely rare case of an undifferentiated liver tumor with OGCs in detail. It also summarizes the previously published cases based on liver tumors with OGCs from August 1980 to June 2021, providing extensive evidence to improve preoperative diagnosis and management options.
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- Yujiao Deng
- Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Radiology, Chengdu Fifth People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Pathology, Chengdu Fifth People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China,*Correspondence: Bing Wu,
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Balakrishnan M, Pathan SK, Mallik MK, Hussein SAB, Al Shatti R, Kapila K. Fine-needle aspiration cytology of osteoclast-like giant cell tumor of liver-a case report with review of literature. Diagn Cytopathol 2021; 50:E18-E22. [PMID: 34499427 DOI: 10.1002/dc.24869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2021] [Revised: 08/11/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Meera Balakrishnan
- Department of Cytopathology, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait
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- Department of Cytopathology, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait
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- Department of Histopathology, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait
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- Department of Surgery, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait
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Kamitani N, Nomi T, Hokuto D, Yoshikawa T, Matsuo Y, Sho M. Primary undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells in liver and rapidly developing multiple metastases after curative hepatectomy: a case report. Int Cancer Conf J 2020; 9:244-248. [PMID: 32904085 DOI: 10.1007/s13691-020-00436-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2020] [Accepted: 07/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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A 64-year-old man was diagnosed with cholangiocellular carcinoma based on preoperative computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging and underwent laparoscopic segmentectomy (Segment 8) of the liver for radical operation. Pathological examination revealed the presence of an undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells, which were categorized as T3N0M0 and Stage III based on the third English edition of the Japanese classification of liver cancer. The patient was treated with three courses of combination chemotherapy, which included gemcitabine (1000 mg/m2) and cisplatin (25 mg/m2), as well as S-1 (120 mg/day) for adjuvant chemotherapy. At two months after the operation, CT revealed multiple liver- and lung metastases. Thereafter, the patient was prescribed the molecularly targeted drug, lenvatinib (12 mg/day). However, lenvatinib was not effective, as evident by the extension of several metastases. Testing for microsatellite instability was negative. The patient died 5 months after the operation. We experienced a case of primary undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells in the liver showed rapidly developing multiple metastases after curative liver resection.
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- Naoki Kamitani
- Department of Surgery, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo-Cho, Kashihara, Nara 634-8522 Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo-Cho, Kashihara, Nara 634-8522 Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo-Cho, Kashihara, Nara 634-8522 Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo-Cho, Kashihara, Nara 634-8522 Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo-Cho, Kashihara, Nara 634-8522 Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo-Cho, Kashihara, Nara 634-8522 Japan
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Dahm HH. Immunohistochemical evaluation of a sarcomatoid hepatocellular carcinoma with osteoclastlike giant cells. Diagn Pathol 2015; 10:40. [PMID: 25928039 PMCID: PMC4411821 DOI: 10.1186/s13000-015-0274-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2014] [Accepted: 04/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Background Malignant liver tumors with osteoclast-like giant cells are rare. A literature search showed 17 previously reported cases that included the following: (1) 8 undifferentiated hepatocellular carcinomas, (2) 5 sarcomatous tumors with osteoclast-like giant cells associated with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma or liver cystadenocarcinoma, and (3) 4 sarcomatoid tumors with osteoclast-like giant cells associated with areas of a conventional hepatocellular carcinoma. Case presentation A 68-year-old man presented with a tumor of the right lobe of the liver on ultrasonography and computed tomography. Laparoscopy showed a tumor (diameter, 4 cm) in segments 7 and 8 of the right liver lobe that adhered to the retroperitoneum. The tumor recurred 3 months after liver segmentectomy. Repeat laparoscopy showed diffuse and nodular metastases to the omentum and peritoneum. Result Light microscopy showed that part of the tumor had features of classic hepatocellular carcinoma. Another part of the tumor had a solid sarcomatous pattern with osteoclast-like giant cells that were irregularly distributed between the smaller undifferentiated tumor cells; cells of this part of the tumor were positive for heppar-1. Conclusion Light microscopic findings including osteoclast-like giant cells, and the strong reaction of heppar-1 antibody with cells of the sarcomatous part of the tumor, confirmed that this sarcomatous element was a metaplastic or transformed portion of hepatocellular carcinoma. Virtual Slides The virtual slide(s) for this article can be found here: http://www.diagnosticpathology.diagnomx.eu/vs/6000512901462616 Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13000-015-0274-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Hepatocellular carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells: report of the seventh case in the literature. Case Rep Surg 2015; 2015:836105. [PMID: 25793139 PMCID: PMC4352421 DOI: 10.1155/2015/836105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2014] [Accepted: 02/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Hepatocellular carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells is extremely rare, and only six cases have been previously reported. Its histogenesis is at the moment controversial. The authors report a case of hepatocellular carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells found in a 74-year-old woman. The patient came with a dull pain in the right upper abdominal quadrants due to a liver neoplasm described at CT scan. A wedge resection of the fifth hepatic segment with appendectomy, omentectomy, and debulking of the major peritoneal implants was performed. Histologically, the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma with high grade differentiation associated with giant osteoclast-like cells was done without any evidence of hepatitis or cirrhosis in the surrounding hepatic parenchyma. Immunohistochemistry was positive for CD10 and CD68 and in situ hybridization revealed the expression of receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B (RANK) in the giant cells and receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B ligand (RANKL) in the tumor cells.
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Tanahashi C, Nagae H, Nukaya T, Hasegawa M, Yatabe Y. Combined hepatocellular carcinoma and osteoclast-like giant cell tumor of the liver: Possible clue to histogenesis. Pathol Int 2009; 59:813-6. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2009.02450.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Osteoclast-like giant cell tumors (OGCT) are rare abdominal tumors, which mainly occur in the pancreas. The neoplasms are composed of two distinct cell populations and frequently show an inhomogenous appearance with cystic structures. However, due to the rarity of these tumors, only very limited clinical data are available. Imaging features and sonographic appearance have hardly been characterized. Here we report on two cases of osteoclast-like giant cell tumors, one located within the pancreas, the other within the liver, in which OGCTs are extremely rare. Both patients were investigated by contrast sonography, which demonstrated a complex, partly cystic and strongly vascularized tumor within the head of the pancreas in the first patient and a large, hypervascularized neoplasm with calcifications within the liver in the second patient. The liver OGCT responded well to a combination of carboplatin, etoposide and paclitaxel. With a combination of surgical resection, radiofrequency ablation and chemotherapy, the patient’s survival is currently more than 15 mo, making him the longest survivor with an OGCT of the liver to date.
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- Juergen Bauditz
- Fourth Department of Medicine, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany
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Ahaouche M, Cazals-Hatem D, Sommacale D, Cadranel JF, Belghiti J, Degott C. A malignant hepatic tumour with osteoclast-like giant cells. Histopathology 2005; 46:590-2. [PMID: 15842645 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2005.02018.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Tse LLY, Finkelstein SD, Siegler RW, Barnes L. Osteoclast-type Giant Cell Neoplasm of Salivary Gland. A Microdissection-based Comparative Genotyping Assay and Literature Review. Am J Surg Pathol 2004; 28:953-61. [PMID: 15223968 DOI: 10.1097/00000478-200407000-00017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Primary salivary gland tumors resembling giant cell tumor of bone are very rare and have unsettled histogenesis. Both mesenchymal and epithelial origins have been suggested. We review 14 cases in the English-language literature and report another case, the first of which to be studied by microdissection-based microsatellite analysis. One-half of the tumors have been associated with a carcinoma, usually salivary duct carcinoma and carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma. Significant differences between this tumor and giant cell tumor of bone were observed. Unlike giant cell tumor of bone, in which the nuclei of the mononuclear and giant cells are similar, those of salivary gland show obvious differences between the nuclei of mononuclear cells and osteoclastic giant cells. In addition and in contrast to giant cell tumor of bone, the mononuclear cells of giant cell tumor of salivary gland express epithelial markers (epithelial membrane antigen, EMA; carcinoembryonic antigen, CEA) and androgen receptor. Genotypically, the microsatellite pattern of the giant cell component is more akin to the carcinomatous component and does not resemble giant cell tumor of bone. Biologically, giant cell tumor of salivary gland tends to be more aggressive than giant cell tumor of bone. We conclude that giant cell tumor of salivary gland is an unusual carcinoma that is not related to giant cell tumor of bone.
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- Loretta L Y Tse
- Department of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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The main components of an unusual form of lung tumor were osteoclast-like multinucleated giant cells and mononuclear stromal cells. Besides, scattered islands of moderately differentiated squamous cells also appeared. Both the mononuclear and the osteoclast-like giant cells reacted with antibodies against CD68 and vimentin, but did not react with antibodies against cytokeratin, EMA and CEA, or lysozyme and a-1-antitrypsin. The p53 and PCNA antigens were positive only in mononuclear cells and not the osteoclast-like giant cells, suggesting that mononuclear cells represent proliferating elements with histiocytic differentiation while osteoclast-like giant cells are stromal, presumably reactive components of the tumor.
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- Zsolt Orosz
- National Institute of Oncology, Department of Human and Experimental Tumor Pathology, Budapest, Hungary
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Westra WH, Sturm P, Drillenburg P, Choti MA, Klimstra DS, Albores-Saavedra J, Montag A, Offerhaus GJ, Hruban RH. K-ras oncogene mutations in osteoclast-like giant cell tumors of the pancreas and liver: genetic evidence to support origin from the duct epithelium. Am J Surg Pathol 1998; 22:1247-54. [PMID: 9777987 DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199810000-00010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Osteoclast-like giant cell tumors (OCGTs) of the pancreas and liver are enigmatic tumors. Despite their striking morphologic resemblance to certain mesenchymal tumors of bone and tendon sheath, it has been suggested that these tumors may, in fact, arise from epithelial precursors. It is also unclear whether the osteoclast-like giant cells in OCGTs are neoplastic or nonneoplastic. We identified OCGTs of the pancreas and liver that were associated with atypical intraductal epithelial proliferations or mucinous cystic neoplasms. To determine the relationship between the noninvasive epithelial proliferations and the infiltrating OCGTs, each individual component was analyzed for mutations at codon 12 of the K-ras oncogene. Four of the five-duct epithelial lesions harbored activating mutations of the K-ras oncogene. In each case, the same K-ras mutation was also present in the mononuclear cells from the paired OCGT. Moreover, these same mutations were detected when the osteoclast-like giant cells were individually microdissected and analyzed. A panel of immunohistochemical stains was performed, and the osteoclast-like giant cells demonstrated macrophage differentiation. These cells were consistently reactive for the monocyte/macrophage marker KP1, but showed absent staining for a panel of epithelial markers. The infiltrating mononuclear cells lacked strong staining for epithelial markers and monocyte/macrophage markers. These findings suggest that OCGTs of the pancreas and liver are undifferentiated carcinomas that arise directly from intraductal epithelial precursors. The finding of K-ras mutations in the osteoclast-like giant cells may reflect their propensity to phagocytize tumor cells.
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- W H Westra
- Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Sasaki A, Yokoyama S, Nakayama I, Nakashima K, Kim YI, Kitano S. Sarcomatoid hepatocellular carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells: case report and immunohistochemical observations. Pathol Int 1997; 47:318-24. [PMID: 9143028 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1997.tb04500.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with osteoclast-like giant cells (OGC) developed in the cirrhotic liver of a 42-year-old male. Serum protein induced by vitamin K absence or antagonist II was elevated preoperatively. The patient died of the disease on the 28th postoperative day. Histologically, the tumor consisted of OGC and mononuclear cells (MC). The OGC were characterized by benign-appearing nuclei, whereas the MC had atypical nuclei with a considerable number of mitoses. A vaguely trabecular pattern was observed in the focal area of the tumor, but no evidence of overt HCC was found. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that both OGC and MC were diffusely positive for histiocytic and mesenchymal markers. Some MC were focally positive for cytokeratins 7, 8 and 19, and for albumin. Our clinical, histological and immunohistochemical findings suggest that the MC were derived from hepatocytes, with some mesenchymal features, but the OGC were non-neoplastic and reactive histiocytes.
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- A Sasaki
- First Department of Pathology, Oita Medical University, Japan
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The aim of the paper is an accurate histologic description and illustration of those liver lesions that are usually summarized under the heading of "hepatic tumors and related subjects". For in some cases it may be unclear or at least controversial, whether the individual lesion is indeed an autonomous neoplasia or a malformation, regeneration or hyperplasia, the indifferent master term of neoformation is introduced, based on the fact that all of them are characterized by a cellular multiplication. According to common definitory practice the survey distinguishes between mesenchymal (angiomatous and non angiomatous) and epithelial neoformations. Among the latter hepatocellular and cholangiocellular types are distinguished, the criterium for differentiation being a phenomenological one, which is by no means identical with a histogenetical statement. The definition of subgroups mostly adheres to current nomenclatory usage; only occasionally--in the group of endothelial tumors--a novel term is employed, in view of brevity and coordination with the overall system of neoformations.
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A cholangiocarcinoma of the hepatic hilus with an element of giant cell tumor that occurred in a 59-year-old man is reported. His medical history included systemic cholelithiasis and repeated operations on the biliary passages. Four years after the last operation, which was a hepatic segmentectomy, he was readmitted because of persistent fever. A computed tomography scan showed a low-density area and stones in the hepatic hilus. He died of hepatic failure approximately 1 month later. At autopsy, a fist-sized tumor and gallstones were found at the hepatic hilus. Histologically, the tumor mainly showed sarcomatoid features and some tubular adenocarcinoma. An element of giant cell tumor consisting of many osteoclast-type giant cells also was noted. The results of immunohistochemical studies showed a positive reaction to cytokeratin and vimentin in some of the spindle-shaped sarcomatoid cells. Sarcomatoid bile duct carcinomas are rare, as are those with osteoclast-type giant cells. The authors also discuss the histogenesis of these giant cells.
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- J Haratake
- Department of Pathology and Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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Fischer HP, Altmannsberger M, Kracht J. Osteoclast-type giant cell tumour of the pancreas. VIRCHOWS ARCHIV. A, PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY AND HISTOPATHOLOGY 1988; 412:247-53. [PMID: 3124345 DOI: 10.1007/bf00737149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Two cases of osteoclast-type giant cell tumour of the pancreas (OGTP) are presented and compared with similar tumours of other locations and pancreatic carcinomas. One of the tumours was analyzed by immunohistochemical methods. The mononuclear stromal cells and osteoclast-like giant cells, which characterize this very rare neoplasm, reacted with an antibody against vimentin, but were not decorated by antibodies against lysozyme, alpha-1-ACHT, alpha-1-AT. Pleomorphic mononuclear cells in osteoid additionally contained osteonectin and could thus be identified as osteoblasts. Only the tumour glands stained positively with panepithelial keratin antibodies and antibodies against the keratin polypeptides 7, 18, 19. These results demonstrate for the first time the mesenchymal differentiation of the OGTP, which in some cases is also able to form epithelial structures. The immunohistochemical reactions and the characteristic morphology of the tumour show the OGTP to be an entity which must be differentiated from pancreatic carcinoma, especially from its giant cellular subtype.
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- H P Fischer
- Department of Pathology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Federal Republic of Germany
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Squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx with osteoclast-like giant cells. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology 1987. [DOI: 10.1017/s0022215100101860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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AbstractAn unusual squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx containing numerous multinucleated osteoclast-like giant cells in described. These cells occurred in areas of vigorous angiogenesis and haemorrhage. To our knowledge, this is the first case of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells reported in the literature. The patient has remained alive and free of clinical disease 5 years and 4 months after the original diagnosis.
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