Meningioma

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Meningioma a very common tumour in neuropathology.

Meningioma
Diagnosis in short

Meningioma. HPS stain.
LM whorled appearance, calcification - psammomatous, +/-nuclear pseudoinclusions
Subtypes Grade I (meningothelial, fibrous, transistional, psammomatous, angiomatous, microcystic, secretory, lymphoplasmacyte-rich, metaplastic), Grade II (invasive, clear cell, chordoid), Grade III (papillary, rhabdoid)
LM DDx schwannoma, solitary fibrous tumour, hemangiopericytoma, others
IHC EMA +ve, keratins usu. -ve, CD34 -ve/+ve, S-100 -ve (usu.), PR +ve (-ve in more aggressive ones)
Site see CNS tumours
Syndromes neurofibromatosis 2, nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome
Clinical history +/-radiation
Prevalence common
Radiology extra-axial, intradural lesion, dural tail sign (on MRI)
Prognosis usually benign, dependent on grade
Clin. DDx dependent on site - see CNS tumours
Treatment surgical removal

General

Prevalence

  • Most common primary brain tumour.[1]
  • May be caused by prior radiation.[2]
  • Women develop meningioma twice as likely as men.[3]
  • More than 90% are solitary.

Prognosis

  • Most are benign - usu. a good prognosis.
    • Even benign tumors may show extensive local spread - considerable morbidity and mortality.
    • Metastases are rare and then usu. after surgery.
  • May be malignant - bad prognosis.
  • Factors associated with unfavourable prognosis:
    • BAP1 mutations.[4]
    • Presence of TERT promotor mutation.[5]
    • Loss of H3K27me3.[6]

Genetics

Quick overview

Name Histologic criteria Subtypes Image
Classic, WHO I less then 4 mit/10 HPF and no atypia meningeothelial, fibroblastic, transitional, psammomatous, angiomatous, microcytsic, secretory, lymphoplasmacyte-rich, metaplastic
 
Atypical, WHO II brain invasion, 4 or more mit/10 HPF, or 3 of the following: necrosis, increased cellularity, high nuc:cyto ratio, nucleoli, sheeting chordoid, clear cell
 
Anaplastic, WHO III 20 or more mitoses/10 HPF, morphologiy similiar to carcinoma or sarcoma rhabdoid, papillary
 

Gross/Radiology

  • Extra-axial, intradural.
    • Can be extradural - very rare.[10]
  • Dural tail sign (DTS) on MRI.[11][12]
    • Enhancement of dura adjacent to the mass lesion - commonly seen (~70% of cases).[13]
    • May be subclassified radiologically - predictive of grading.[14]
  • +/-Hyperostosis.
    • Associated with invasion into the skull in ~20% of cases.[15]

  • Sphenoid wing meningioma (WC/Hellerhoff)

  • Brain displacement by meningioma (AFIP)

  • Macroscopy (Всеволод Лучанский (vvray))

Microscopic

Features (memory device WCN):

  • Whorled appearance - key feature.
  • Calcification, psammomatous (target-like appearance; (tight) onion skin).
  • +/-Nuclear pseudoinclusions - focal nuclear clearing with a sharp interface to unremarkable chromatin.

Notes:

  • May involute into benign sclerotic tissue.[16]
  • Thick-walled blood vessels -> think schwannoma.

DDx:

Images

  • Meningioma - high mag. (WC)

  • Meningioma - intermed. mag. (WC)

  • Meningioma with brain invasion - intermed. mag. (WC)

  • Meningioma with brain invasion - high mag. (WC)

  • Whorls in meningioma. (WC)

  • Whorls in meningioma. (WC)

  • Meningioma annotated. (WC)

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Morphologic subtypes

  • Many subtypes exist.[17]
  • The histologic subtypes generally don't have much prognostic significance.
    • Some subtypes are high grade by definition; also see histologic grading.

Grade I

Meningothelial meningioma
  • Most common.

Microscopic:

  • Syncytial, nuclear clearing (pseudoinclusions).
  • Whorls, Onion bulb formations.
  • Few psammoma bodies.

Molecular:

  • AKT E17K mutations.[18]

  • Syncytial appearance, whorl formations (WC/jensflorian)

  • Psammoma body (WC/Netha Hussain)

  • Onion bulb formation in smear (WC/jensflorian)

  • Meningioma HPS stain (WC/Nephron)

Fibrous meningioma
  • AKA fibroblastic meningioma.
  • Not collagen... but looks like it.
    • It is really laminin or fibronectin.
  • Spindle cells in parallel bundles.
  • Few to none whorl formations.

  • Fibrous meingioma (WC)

  • EMA staining (WC/marvin 101)

Transitional meningioma
  • AKA mixed.
  • Common.
  • Lobular and fasicular growth patterns coexist.
  • Usu. a mixture of meningeothelial and fibromatous meningioma

  • Low power (WC/KGH)

  • Intermed magnification (WC/KGH)

  • Mitosis in a transitional meningioma (WC/jensflorian)

Psammomatous meningioma

Microscopic:

  • Psammoma bodies dominate over tumor cells.
    • Irregular calcifications (confluent psammoma bodies).
  • Usually found in spinal cord.

  • Numerous psammoma bodies (WC/jensflorian)

  • Psammomatous meningioma after EDTA treatment (WC)

Angiomatous meningioma
  • AKA vascular.
  • May bleed like stink.
  • May show extensive edema.
  • Hyalinized vessels dominate over tumor cells.
  • Degenerative nuclear atypia.

DDx:

  • Vascular malformatons
  • Hemangioblastoma

  • Angiomatous meningioma (WC/jensflorian)

Microcystic meningioma

Microscopic:

  • Cystic appearance.
  • Increased cytologic pleomorphism of the elongated cells.

DDx:

  • Clear cell meningioma
  • Hemangioblastoma

  • Microcyts (WC/jensflorian)

Secretory meningioma
  • Associated with brain edema; may have a worse outcome.

Microscopic:[19]

  • Eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusions that are CEA +ve and PAS +ve.

Molecular:

  • Combined KLF4 K409Q and TRAF7 mutations.[20]

DDx:

  • Secretory granules (WC/jensflorian)

  • PAS-positive secretory granules (WC/jensflorian)

  • Smear with secretory granules (WC/jensflorian)

Images:

Lymphoplasmacyte-rich meningioma

Microscopic:

  • Lymphocytes.
  • Plasma cells.

Images:

Metaplastic meningioma
  • No clinical significance.
  • Probably do not represent true metaplasia in all cases.
  • Clincal information is rquired to distinguish between bone invasion and meningiomas with bone formation.

Microscopic:

  • Cartilage or bone formation.
  • Myxoid or xanthomatous changes.

  • Ossified meningioma, HE stain. (WC/jensflorian)

  • Metaplastic meningioma with xanthomatous changes. (WC/jensflorian)

Grade II

Brain invasive meningioma
  • Invades the brain (irregular, tongue-like).
  • Absence of leptomeningeal layer.
  • Brain invasion can be present in grade I tumors, these are then classified as "atypical", ie. as grade II tumors.
  • The prognostic significance of brain invasion is still unclear, some studies do not show a course similiar to grade II meningiomas.[22][23][24]

Images:

  • Finger-like protrusions, HE (WC/jensflorian)

  • Brain invasive meningooma (WC/Nephron)

Clear cell meningioma

Epidemiology:

  • Usu. spinal cord.[25]

Microscopic:

  • Clear cells - contain glycogen (PAS +ve).

  • Clear cell meningioma, HE (WC/jensflorian)

Molecular:

  • SMARCE1 mutations.[26]

Images:

Chordoid meningioma
  • Chordoma-like.

Microscopic:

  • Chordoid meningioma - HE (WC/jensflorian)

  • Chordoid meningioma - alcian blue (WC/jensflorian)


Image:

Grade III

Papillary meningioma

Microscopic:

  • discohesive meningothelial tumour cells around a fibrovascular core.
  • perivascular pseudorosettes.

  • Papillary meningioma (WC/jensflorian)

  • Papillary meningioma (WC)

Rhabdoid meningioma

Microscopic:

  • Rhabdoid appearance (abundant cytoplasm).
    • Cross-striations.

  • Rhabdoid meningioma. (WC/Marvin 101)

  • Frozen section (WC/jensflorian)

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Other morphological variants

These are currently not listed in the WHO as separate entities.

  • Oncocytic.[27]
  • Whorling-sclerosing.[28]
  • Rosette-forming.[29]

  • Whorling-sclerosing features in meningioma (HE/jensflorian)

  • Meningioma with rosette-forming features (HE/jensflorian)

Histologic grading

Grading:[17]

  • Grade 1:
    • Low mitotic rate (< 4 mitoses/10 HPF - for whatever HPF means, see HPFitis).
    • Excludes clear cell, chordoid, papillary, and rhabdoid subtypes.
  • Grade 2 (either #1, #2 or #3):
    1. Brain-invasive meningioma.
      • Invasion of meningioma into brain.
        • Meninogioma with entraped GFAP +ve tissue.
    2. Atypical meningioma (by histomorphology) - either A or B.
      • A. Intermediate mitotic rate (>= 4 mitoses/10 HPF - for whatever HPF means, see HPFitis.)
      • B. Three of the following five features:
        1. Sheeting architecture.
        2. High NC ratio clusters; clusters of "lymphocyte-like" cells.
        3. Hypercellularity.
        4. Macronucleoli.
        5. Necrosis not caused by treatment, e.g. radiation or embolization.
    3. Clear cell or chordoid subtype.
  • Grade 3 (either of the following):
    • High mitotic rate (>=20 mitoses/10 HPF - for whatever HPF means, see HPFitis.)
    • "Frank anaplasia"; marked nuclear atypia.
    • Papillary or rhabdoid subtype.

Notes:

  • Grade II soft criteria memory device HMNs: hypercellular, macronucleoli, NC ratio increased, necrosis, sheeting.

IHC

  • EMA +ve (approx. 90%).[30]
  • PR +ve (approx. 75%, expression decreases from grade I to III).
  • SSTR2A +ve (approx. 95%).
  • S100 variable (up to 35% cases, usually patchy).
  • SOX10 -ve.
  • GFAP -ve.
  • CD34 usu. -ve (approx 8% cases positive).
  • Other CKs usually -ve (approx 6% cases positive, mostly secretory meningiomas).

Molecular

Non-syndromal meningiomas may show AKT1/TRAF7, SMO, KLF4/TRAF7, and PIK3CA mutations (1/3 of cases).[31]

  • AKT/TRAF7 mutations are usually basal and associated with meningothelial histology.
  • KLF4/TRAF7 mutations are highly specific for secretory histology.
  • TRAF7 mutations are the first step and occur thorughout the WD40 domain. [32]

Intraventricular meningiomas have NF2 mutations. [33]

Several inherited diseases are associated with meningiomas:

Methylation profiling distinguishes two major groups with six distinct clinically relevant methylation classes.[39]


DDx of meningioma & IHC[40]

A standard work-up

  • Ki-67 >5-10% - predicts re-occurrence.[43]
  • PR (progesterone receptor) +ve in > 80% of meningiomas.[44]
    • Loss of PR staining predicts recurrence.
    • Strong association with tumour grade:[45]
      • Low WHO grade tumours usu. +ve.
      • High WHO grade tumours usu. -ve.

See also

References

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