An introduction to head and neck pathology
Head and neck pathology is squamous cell carcinoma and weird stuff. The thyroid is dealt with in its own article, as is pathology of the salivary gland.
Cytopathology of the head and neck is dealt with in a separate article called head and neck cytopathology.
Clinical
Oral lesions
DDx:[1]
- Leukoplakia.
- Unidentified white lesion.
- More worrisome than erythroplakia.
- Often assoc. with epithelial thickening (hyperkeratosis, acanthosis).
- Erythroplakia.
- Unidentified red lesion.
- Often erosion.
Benign cystic lesions
- Cytology dealt with in Head and neck cytopathology.
DDx
Lateral:
Medial:
Both:
- Epidermoid cyst.
- Cystic squamous cell carcinoma.
Rathke cleft cyst
- Main article: Rathke cleft cyst
- Arises from intermediate lobe - embryonic remnant.
- Benign cystic lesion without calcification.
- Related to craniopharyngioma.
Thyroglossal duct cyst
General
- Congenital.
- Midline.
Treatment:
- Surgical excision (with piece of hyoid bone).
Microscopic
Features:
- Cyst.
- Lining:
- Squamous or respiratory epithelium.
- Cyst contents: debris.
- Lining:
- +/-Thyroid gland.
- +/-Granulomatous inflammation (phagocytosis of debris).
Images:
Branchial cleft cyst
- AKA branchial cleft remnant.
General
- Benign congenital thingy in the lateral neck.[3]
- Treatment: excision.
Clinical image: Branchial cleft cyst (thefreedictionary.com).
Microscopic
Features:
- Cystic space lined by squamous epithelium - usually.
- Connective tissue:
- +/-Adipose tissue.
- +/-Cartilage.
- +/-Bone.
- +/-Muscle.
Image:
Benign lymphoepithelial lesion
- AKA benign lymphoepithelial cyst
General
- Usually parotid gland.
- Associated with autoimmune disease, e.g. Sjoegren disease, may not remain benign.[5]
Microscopic
Features:
- Lymphocytes.
- Ductal epithelial cells.[6]
Note:
- Must rule-out (MALT) lymphoma.
IHC
- CD20, CD3 -- mixed population.
- Kappa ~ lambda.
Other benign
Vocal cord nodule
General
- Benign.
- AKA singer's nodule.
- Etiology: overuse, mechanical trauma (?).
Microscopic
Features:[7]
- Early:
- Edema.
- Fibroblasts proliferation.
- Late:
- Subepithelial hyaline / stromal hyaline.
- Blood vessels - dilated.
Notes:
- No inflammation.
Images:
Pemphigus vulgaris
- AKA pemphigus.
- Should not be confused with bullous pemphigoid (which is less serious).
General
- May lead to blindness.
- Oral lesion is classically: first to show & last to go.
- Oral lesions usually precede the skin lesions.
Etiology:
- Autoimmune disease.
- Antibodies against: desmoglein 1, desmoglein 3.
Microscopic
Features:[8]
- Suprabasilar blistering.
DDx: Hailey-Hailey disease.
Pyogenic granuloma
General
- Sometimes pregnancy tumour.
- Seen in children, young adults, pregnant women.
Clinical:
- May grow quickly - clinically suspicious for a malignancy.
Notes:
- Name of entity is a misnomer:
- Not pyogenic, i.e. infectious.
- Not granulomatous.
- The WMSP advocates the name lobular capillary hemangioma.[10]
Gross
Features:[11]
- Erythematous.
- Hemorrhagic.
Usually location:[10]
- Lips.
- Tongue.
- Gingiva.
Microscopic
Features:[12]
- Polypoid or peduculated.
- Vascular, i.e. many blood vessels, with plump endothelium.
- Usu. thinned epithelium[13] or ulcerated.[10]
- Lobular arrangement of vascular (seen at low power).[14]
DDx:
Why it is not...
- Glomus tumour - cookie cutter arrangement of cells.
Image:
IHC
Features - positive for vascular markers:[10]
- CD34 +ve.
- CD31 +ve.
- Factor VIII +ve.
Hairy leukoplakia
General
Features:[16]
Gross:
- White confluent patches (icing sugar).
Microscopic
Features:[17]
- Hyperkeratosis (thicker stratum corneum).[18]
- Acanthosis (thicker stratum spinosum).[19]
- "Balloon cells" in upper stratum spinosum - perinuclear clearing.
Plummer-Vinson syndrome
Triad:[11]
- Iron-deficiency anemia.
- Glossitis.
- Esophageal dysphagia (usually related to webs).
Oral candidiasis
- Fungus.
- May be associated with immunodeficiency, e.g. AIDS, organ transplant/immunosuppression.
Forms:[16]
- Pseudomembranous (thrush).
- Erythematous.
- Hyperplastic.
Rhinoscleroma
General
- Caused by Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis.
- Nose involved +95% of the time.[20]
Gross
- Nasal mass - may be deforming.
Image:
Microscopic
Features:[21]
- Macrophages - clear-to-foamy cytoplasm.
- Lymphocytes.
- Plasma cells.
DDx:
Images:
- WC:
- www:
Stains
- Warthin-Starry stain +ve (rod-shaped organisms).
- Dieterle stain +ve (rod-shaped organisms).
Neoplasms
Odontogenic tumours and cysts
This is a rather large topic and dealt with in a separate article.
It includes:
- Keratocystic odontogenic tumour.
- Radicular cyst.
- Dentigerous cyst.
- Ameloblastoma.
- Adenomatoid odontogenic tumour.
- Ameloblastic fibroma.
- Odontogenic myxoma.
Pharyngeal/nasopharyngeal specimens
- Specimens may be challenging to interpret as there is normally an abundance of lymphoid cells.
- Malignant tissue can look benign.[23]
- May be difficult to differentiate from other malignancies.
Histology
- Upper airway distant from areas with friction: respiratory type epithelium.
Work-up of negative H&E Bx differs by site:
- Sunnybrook:[24]
- LMWK (CAM5.2).
- pankeratin (AE1/AE3).
- UHN.
- Nothing.
Sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma
- Abbreviated SNUC
General
- Very aggressive/poor prognosis - survival measured in months.[25]
Microscopic
Features:[26]
- Architecture: nested, trabecular or lobular.
- Distinct cellular borders.
- Small-to-moderate cytoplasm.
- +/-Distinct nucleoli.
- Tumour cell size variable (small to large).
Note:
- Glandular and squamous differentiation are absent by definition.[27]
Images:
IHC
Features:[26]
- Pankeratin +ve.
- EMA +ve.
- CK7 +ve.
- CK5/6 -ve.
Others:
- NSE +ve/-ve.
- Chromogranin A -ve.
- Synaptophysin -ve.
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Abbreviated NPC.
General
- "Nasopharyngeal carcinoma" is the name of an entity - it is not a descriptive term.
- Strong association with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
Note:
- A morphologically identical tumour elsewhere is called lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma.
Microscopic
Features:[28]
- Prominent lymphoid component - key feature.
- Features of squamous cell carcinoma:
- Cohesive cells with:
- Abundant dense eosinophilic cytoplasm.
- Central nuclei +/- small/indistinct nucleoli.
- Cohesive cells with:
Image(s):
Histologic subclassification
World Health Classification (2005) for NPC:[29]
Type | Histology | Description | EBV | Prevalence | Prognosis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | keratinizing SCC | graded poorly-well-diff. | -ve | ? | bad |
2a | nonkeratinizing carcinoma, differentiated | well def. cell borders & tumour nest borders, mimics appearance of UCC | +ve | ? | good |
2b | nonkeratinizing carcinoma, undifferentiated | sheets/syncytial, vescicular nuclei, prominent nucleoli, pink cytoplasm | ? | most common | ? |
3 | basaloid SCC | mimics BCC - see basaloid SCC | ? | least common | ? |
IHC
- EBER +ve.
- p16 -ve.[30]
Notes:
- HPV associated squamous cell carcinomas are p16 +ve.
Squamous lesions
- Premalignant lesions
- Mild dysplasia.
- Low risk of progression to invasive lesions.
- Moderate dysplasia.
- Severe dysplasia/carcinoma in situ (CIS).
- Histologically severe dysplasia and CIS cannot be differentiated reliably; ergo, there can be considered the same thing.
- Severe dysplasia is not a necessary intermediate for cancer, i.e. invasive squamous cell carcinoma may be present with moderate dysplasia.
- Mild dysplasia.
- Invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).
- "Microinvasive" squamous cell carcinoma - term should be avoided as there is no concenus on what it means.
- There are several subtypes of SCC.
Squamous cell carcinoma
General
- Most common tumour of the head & neck.
Microscopic
Classification
SCC is subdivided by the WHO into:[31]
- Keratinizing type (KT).
- Worst prognosis.
- Undifferentiated type (UT).
- Intermediate prognosis.
- EBV association.
- Nonkeratinizing type (NT).
- Good prognosis.
- EBV association.
Features based on classification:[31]
- KT subtype:
- Keratinization & intercellular bridges through-out most of the malignant lesion.
- UT:
- Non-distinct borders/syncytial pattern.
- Nucleoli.
- NT:
- Well-defined cell borders.
Invasion
Features:
- Eosinophilia.
- Extra large nuclei/bizarre nuclei.
- Inflammation (lymphocytes, plasma cells).
- Long rete ridges.
- Numerous beeds/blobs of epithelial cells that seem unlikely to be rete ridges.
Pitfalls:
- Tangential cuts.
- If you can trace the squamous cells from a gland to the surface it is less likely to be invasive cancer.
Notes on invasion:
- Nice review paper by Wenig.[32]
- See SCC of the cervix versus CIN III.
Image(s):
Overview of subtypes
There are several subtypes:[33]
- Basaloid - poor prognosis, usu. diagnosed by recognition of typical SCC.
- Warty (Condylomatous).
- Verrucous - good prognosis, rare.
- Papillary.
- Lymphoepithelial, rare.
- Spindle cell, a common spindle cell lesion of the H&N.
Verrucous squamous cell carcinoma
Features:
- Exophytic growth.
- Well-differentiated.
- "Glassy" appearance.
- Pushing border.
DDx: papilloma.
Spindle cell squamous carcinoma
- Key to diagnosis is finding a component of conventional squamous cell carcinoma.
IHC:
- Typically keratin -ve.
- p63 +ve.
DDx:
- Spindle cell melanoma.
- Mesenchymal neoplasm.
Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma
- May mimic adenoid cystic carcinoma.
- Classically base of tongue.[34]
- Typically poor prognosis.
Features:
- Need keratinization. (???)
DDx:
- Neuroendocrine tumour.
Lymphoepithelial (squamous cell) carcinoma
- Rare.
- +/-EBV.
Small cell anaplastic carcinoma
- Rare.
DDx:
- Metastatic small cell carcinoma of the lung.
Granular cell tumour
General
- May mimic (well-differentiated) squamous cell carcinoma - histopathologically.
- There is a well-described phenomenon called pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia.[35]
- Usually a benign tumour.
Microscopic
Features:
- Large polygonal cells with abundant (eosinophilic) granular cytoplasm.
Image:
Olfactory neuroblastoma
- See also: neuroblastoma.
- AKA esthesioneuroblastoma.
General
- Prognosis: poor.
Microscopic
Features:
DDx:
- Lymphoma.
- Small cell carcinoma.
- Other small round cell tumours.
- Basaloid squamous carcinoma. (???)
Image:
IHC
- S100:
- Sustentacular cells +ve.
- Small round cells -ve.
- Neuroendocrine markers +ve (CD56, synaptophysin).
Others:
- CD45 -ve (r/o lymphoma).
- AE1/AE3 -ve (r/o carcinoma).
Craniopharyngioma
- Cystic lesion +/- calcifications +/-squamous nests.
- Related to Rathke cleft cyst.
Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
- See also: Angiofibroma.
- AKA juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma.
General
- Classically adolescent males with recurrent nose bleeds.
Microscopic
Features:[37]
- Fibroblastic cells with plump (near cuboidal) nuclei.
- Fibrous stroma.
- Abundant capillaries.
Images:
Nasal polyps
Overview
DDx (benign - multiple):[38]
- Autoimmune/idiopathic:
- Asthma.
- Allergic rhinitis.
- Churg-Strauss syndrome (AKA allergic granulomatous angiitis).
- Features: asthma, eosinophilia, granulomatous inflammation, necrotizing systemic vasculitis, and necrotizing glomerulonephritis.[39]
- Nonallergic rhinitis with eosinophilia syndrome (NARES).
- Infectious:
- Fungal infection (with allergic component - AFS = allergic fungal sinusitis).
- Chronic rhinosinusitis.
- Genetic
- Primary ciliary dyskinesia.
- Cystic fibrosis.
- Associations:
- Alcohol intolerance ~ 50%.
- Aspirin intolerance - upto ~ 25%.
Tumours:
- Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (young males).
- Nasopharyngeal carcinomas.
- Sarcomas.
- Hemangioma.
- Papilloma.
- Other.
Epidemiology
- More commonly assoc. with nonallergic conditions.[38]
Treatment
- Recurrent polyps: Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS).
Inflammatory polyps with neutrophils
General
- Histologic findings are non-specific; DDx includes:[40]
- Cystic fibrosis.
- Primary ciliary dyskinesia syndrome.
- Young syndrome
Microscopic
Features:
- Neutrophil predominant.
- Edema.
- +/-Mucus-impaction (dilated glands with mucus).
- Suggestive of cystic fibrosis.[41]
Allergic nasal polyp
General
- People with allergies.
Gross
- Polypoid mass - several millimetres to centimetres in size.
Microscopic
Features:[42]
- Normal respiratory epithelium.
- Stroma with:
- Edema.
- Eosinophils.
- +/-Other inflammatory cells (plasma cells, lymphocytes, neutrophils).
Tonsillar lymphangiomatous polyp
Microscopic
Features:[43]
- Polyp with lymph channels.
Schneiderian papilloma
General
- Lumpers vs. splitters debate about whether it is one entity or three.[45]
- Inverted (Schneiderian) - most common ~60-65%.
- Fungiform (Schneiderian) - less common ~30-35%.
- Oncocytic (Schneiderian) - least common ~5%.
Inverted
- AKA inverted papilloma.[46]
- Usually lateral wall (as the septum as little soft tissue to grow into).[45]
- May transform to carcinoma.
Fungiform
Oncocytic
Microscopic
Inverted Schneiderian papilloma
Features:[45]
- Well-demarcated epithelial islands in the stroma.
- Squamous +/-surface keratinization or respiratory type epithelium (with cilia).
- +/-Neutrophils.
- +/-Goblet cells.
Notes:
- May mimic invasive SCC.
Images:
- Inverted papilloma & verrucous carcinoma (upmc.edu).
- Schneiderian papilloma - very low mag. (WC).
- Schneiderian papilloma - very high mag. (WC).
Fungiform Schneiderian papilloma
Features:
- Exophytic growth pattern - key feature.
Oncocytic Schneiderian papilloma
Features:
- Oncocytes - key feature.
- Exophytic or endophytic growth pattern.
See also
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