Urothelial carcinoma in situ

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Urothelial carcinoma in situ, also known as high-grade (urothelial) dysplasia, a non-invasive urothelial neoplasm without papillae.

It is also known as carcinoma in situ, abbreviated CIS. Urothelial carcinoma in situ may be abbreviated UCIS.

General

  • Lack papillae.

Classification of flat urothelial lesions

The World Health Organization classification is:[1]

  • Reactive urothelial atypia.
  • Flat urothelial hyperplasia.
  • Urothelial atypia of unknown significance.
  • Urothelial dysplasia (low-grade dysplasia).
  • Urothelial carcinoma in situ (high-grade dysplasia).
  • Invasive urothelial carcinoma.

Microscopic

Features:

  • Nuclear changes key feature.
    • Enlargement of nuclei (often 4-5x the size of stromal lymphocytes) -- diagnostic.[2]
      • Normal urothelium approx. 2x the size of stromal lymphocytes.
    • Nuclear pleomorphism - marked variation in size of nuclei.
  • +/-Disordered arrangement/crowding of cells.
    • In normal urothelium the cell line-up on the basement membrane.
  • Umbrella cells often absent.
  • +/-Mitoses present.
  • +/-Enlarged nucleoli.

Note:

  • The urothelium may be "depleted", i.e. exist only of rare large cells on the basement membrane.
    • This is known as clinging urothelial carcinoma in situ.[3]

DDx:

Images

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IHC

Features:[4]

  • p53 +ve.
  • Ki-67 high.

Benign urothelium vs. CIS:[5]

  • CK20 +ve in deep cells (23/26 cases).
    • Normal urothelium -- only the umbrella cells.
  • Ki-67 ~50% of cells - deep and superficial.
    • Normal ~10% of cells, confined to basal aspect.

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URINARY BLADDER LESION ("TUMOUR"), TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION URINARY BLADDER TUMOUR (TURBT): 
- UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA IN SITU.
- MUSCULARIS PROPRIA PRESENT.

See also

References

  1. Hodges, KB.; Lopez-Beltran, A.; Davidson, DD.; Montironi, R.; Cheng, L. (Feb 2010). "Urothelial dysplasia and other flat lesions of the urinary bladder: clinicopathologic and molecular features.". Hum Pathol 41 (2): 155-62. doi:10.1016/j.humpath.2009.07.002. PMID 19762067.
  2. Zhou, Ming; Magi-Galluzzi, Cristina (2006). Genitourinary Pathology: A Volume in Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series (1st ed.). Churchill Livingstone. pp. 161. ISBN 978-0443066771.
  3. Amin, Mahul B. (2010). Diagnostic Pathology: Genitourinary (1st ed.). Amirsys. pp. 2-55. ISBN 978-1931884280.
  4. Lopez-Beltran, A.; Jimenez, RE.; Montironi, R.; Patriarca, C.; Blanca, A.; Menendez, CL.; Algaba, F.; Cheng, L. (Nov 2011). "Flat urothelial carcinoma in situ of the bladder with glandular differentiation.". Hum Pathol 42 (11): 1653-9. doi:10.1016/j.humpath.2010.12.024. PMID 21531007.
  5. Yin, H.; He, Q.; Li, T.; Leong, AS. (Sep 2006). "Cytokeratin 20 and Ki-67 to distinguish carcinoma in situ from flat non-neoplastic urothelium.". Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 14 (3): 260-5. PMID 16932015.