Peripheral nerve sheath tumours
Peripheral nerve sheath tumours, abbreviated PNSTs, are common in neuropathology and occasionally show-up elsewhere. A very common PNST is the schwannoma.
Classification
A classification:[1]
- Benign:
- Malignant:
Specific diagnoses
Schwannoma
Main article: Schwannoma
Perineurioma
General
- Benign tumour derived from perineurial cells (intraneural or soft tissue).
- ICD-O 9571/0
- WHO grade I
- Rarely malignant soft tissue perineurioma.
Variant:
- Reticular perineurioma.[2]
Macroscopy
- Intraneural perineurioma: segmental tubular enlargement of the nerve.
- Soft tissue perineurioma: Well circumscribed, but not encapsulated.
Microscopic
Features:[3]
- Perineural epithelioid cells.
- Abundant pale, fluffy appearing cytoplasm.
Note:
- May be intraneural.[3]
- Typical pseudo-onion bulbs.
- Long considered hypertrophic neuropathy.
- Rare (less than 1% of all nerve sheath tumours).
DDx:
- Neuroma.
- Neurofibroma.
- Schwannoma.
- S100 +ve, EMA -ve.[3]
- Liposarcoma - reticular perineurioma.
Images:
Pseudo-onion bulbs in a intraneural perioneurioma (WC/jensflorian)
IHC
- S100 -ve.
- EMA +ve.
- CD34 ~65% +ve.[4]
Traumatic neuroma
- May be referred to as neuroma.
Main article: Traumatic neuroma
Palisaded encapsulated neuroma
General
- Flesh-colour papule - classically on the face.[6]
- Isolated finding - not associated with a systemic disease or malignancy.[7]
- Superficial skin papule.[8]
- It is considered hyperplastic rather than neoplastic. [9]
Microscopic
Features:[6]
- Encapsulated dermal spindle cell lesion.
- Fasciular arrangement.
- Neural-type spindle cells:
- Not vacuolated.
- Nuclei have pointy ends.
- Sometimes epitheloid appearance.
- Intralesional clefts.
- Useful to differentiate from schwannoma.
DDx:
- Schwannoma:[6]
- No intralesional clefts.
- More variability in the cellularity.
- May be deep.
Other considerations:
- Leiomyoma - cytoplasm not vacuolated, nuclei more elliptical.
Images:
Palisaded and encapsulated neuroma (Ed Uthman)
PEN, S-100 staining (Ed Uthman)
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Palisading/encapsulated (Reed’s) neuroma. A. A dermal nodule shows an attenuated capsule (black arrows) about a fasciculated spindle cell lesion with artefactual clefts (green arrows). B. The bland spindled nuclei, amid clear cytoplasm with thin eosinophilic wisps, are often wavy (black arrows), with pointed ends (green arrows); leiomyomas have blunt ended nuclei and more eosinophilic cytoplasm. These benign neoplasms, unlike neurofibromas, lack an association with neurofibromatosis.
IHC
Features:[7]
- S100 +ve.
- EMA +ve (capsule of lesion).
Neurofibroma
Main article: Neurofibroma
Includes discussion of plexiform neurofibroma.
Neurothekeoma
Main article: Neurothekeoma
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour
Main article: Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour
Malignant triton tumour
- Abbreviated MTT.
- AKA malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor with rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation.[10]
General
- Rare.
- Considered to be a variant of MPNST.
- Prognosis worse that conventional MPNST.[10]
- Five year survival ~14%.[11]
- Diagnosis may require clinical information, i.e. individual has a history of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1).
Note:
- A handful of benign triton tumours are reported; these are considered neuromuscular hamartomas.[12]
Microscopic
Features - Woodruff criteria - all three required:[10]
- (a) Tumour arise from a peripheral nerve or (b) individual has NF1 or (c) lesion a metastasis arising in the context of (a) or (b).
- Schwann cell tumour characteristics.
- Rhabdomyoblasts.
- Eccentric nucleus.
- Moderate amount of eosinophilic cytoplasm.
- +/-Cross-striations.
DDx:
- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour.
- Adult fibrosarcoma.
- Synovial sarcoma.
- Rhabdomyosarcoma.
- Carcinosarcoma.
IHC
Features:
- S100 +ve/-ve -- usu. focal if positive.[10]
- Leu-7 +ve/-ve.
- Myelin basic protein +ve/-ve.
Rhabdomyoblastic differentiation:[10]
- Desmin.
- Actin.
- Myogenin.
EM
- +/-Sarcomeres.[10]
Morton neuroma
Main article: Morton neuroma
See also
References
- ↑ Wippold FJ, Lubner M, Perrin RJ, Lämmle M, Perry A (October 2007). "Neuropathology for the neuroradiologist: Antoni A and Antoni B tissue patterns". AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 28 (9): 1633–8. doi:10.3174/ajnr.A0682. PMID 17893219. http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/reprint/28/9/1633.
- ↑ Graadt van Roggen, JF.; McMenamin, ME.; Belchis, DA.; Nielsen, GP.; Rosenberg, AE.; Fletcher, CD. (Apr 2001). "Reticular perineurioma: a distinctive variant of soft tissue perineurioma.". Am J Surg Pathol 25 (4): 485-93. PMID 11257623.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Mills, Stacey E; Carter, Darryl; Greenson, Joel K; Reuter, Victor E; Stoler, Mark H (2009). Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology (5th ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 424. ISBN 978-0781779425.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hornick, JL.; Fletcher, CD. (Jul 2005). "Soft tissue perineurioma: clinicopathologic analysis of 81 cases including those with atypical histologic features.". Am J Surg Pathol 29 (7): 845-58. PMID 15958848.
- ↑ Tsang, WY.; Chan, JK.; Chow, LT.; Tse, CC. (Aug 1992). "Perineurioma: an uncommon soft tissue neoplasm distinct from localized hypertrophic neuropathy and neurofibroma.". Am J Surg Pathol 16 (8): 756-63. PMID 1497116.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Busam, Klaus J. (2009). Dermatopathology: A Volume in the Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series (1st ed.). Saunders. pp. 536. ISBN 978-0443066542.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Newman, MD.; Milgraum, S. (2008). "Palisaded encapsulated neuroma (PEN): an often misdiagnosed neural tumor.". Dermatol Online J 14 (7): 12. PMID 18718196.
- ↑ S. Sade. 8 September 2011.
- ↑ Rosai & Ackermann, Surgical Pathology, 10th ed. p183
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Stasik, CJ.; Tawfik, O. (Dec 2006). "Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor with rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation (malignant triton tumor).". Arch Pathol Lab Med 130 (12): 1878-81. doi:10.1043/1543-2165(2006)130[1878:MPNSTW]2.0.CO;2. PMID 17149968.
- ↑ McConnell, YJ.; Giacomantonio, CA. (Jan 2012). "Malignant triton tumors-complete surgical resection and adjuvant radiotherapy associated with improved survival.". J Surg Oncol. doi:10.1002/jso.23042. PMID 22253011.
- ↑ Castro, DE.; Raghuram, K.; Phillips, CD. (Apr 2005). "Benign triton tumor of the trigeminal nerve.". AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 26 (4): 967-9. PMID 15814954.
- ↑ Makki, D.; Haddad, BZ.; Mahmood, Z.; Shahid, MS.; Pathak, S.; Garnham, I. (Sep 2012). "Efficacy of corticosteroid injection versus size of plantar interdigital neuroma.". Foot Ankle Int 33 (9): 722-6. doi:DOI: 10.3113/FAI.2012.0722. PMID 22995258.