Pathology and Radiology: Oncology Flashcards
What is a traumatic neuroma?
What is often a cause?
What is a common example?
How do they feel?
- Tangle of axons, Schwann cells, and fibroblasts in a collagen matrix as a result of injury to a nerve
- Surgery is a common cause (e.g. oral surgery)
- Morton neuroma
- Painful and rubbery
Schwann cells are derived from which cell type?
What disorder are schwannomas associated with?
Neural crest cells
NF2
What are the common nerve sites for Schwannomas to form intracranially?
Superior vestibular nerve where entering IAM
Trigeminal nerve
What types of nerves do spinal schwannomas form on?
In rare cases where there is an intra-axial schwannoma where did it likely form?
- Spinal sensory nerve roots
- Perivascular nerves
What are the two histological patterns seen with Schwannomas?
Antoni A (Compact, dense reticular cells, fusiform cells, and collagen matrix)
Antoni B (Loose, stellate cells with stoma surrounding)
What are Verocay bodies and in what peripheral nerve sheath tumor are they seen in?
Anuclear material with palisading cells in Antoni A areas, seen in Schwannomas
Schwannomas stain positive for what on IHC?
S100
How do Schwannomas appear on T1 and enhanced MRI?
T1: hypointense to isointense
They do enhance
Rare for them to have calcification
Do neurofibromas occur intracranially?
No
What cell types make up neurofibromas?
Scwannn cells and fibroblasts in conjunction with collagen and reticulin
What do cutaneous neurofibromas stain positive for on IHC?
S100, Vimentin, Leu7
Occasionally GFAP
Describe the characteristics of cutaneous neurofibromas. What disease are they associated with and do they often undergo malignant transformation?
Dermal or subcutaneous, painless, and unencapsulated lesions. Assd with NF1 and rarely malignantly transform
Path: Loose, wavy nuclei in an axonal matrix detected by silver stain
Describe the characteristics of intraneural neurofibromas. What disease are they associated with and do they often undergo malignant transformation?
Involve large nerve trunks and occasionally plexi (i.e. plexiform neurofibromas). Assd with NF1 and may undergo malignant transformation
What rare peripheral nerve sheath tumor may cause a motor mononeuropathy in adolescents? What types of cells make it up and what does it stain for on IHC?
Perineuroma
Perineural cells
EMA positive, S100 negative
What peripheral nerve sheath tumor is painful, involves proximal nerves, and demonstrates a high recurrence rate with pathology noting high cellularity, mitotic figures, and necrosis?
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
Where are colloid cysts normally located?
What is thought to be their cellular origin?
What are the cysts filled with?
Does the cyst enhance at all?
What is a good size threshold above which to consider surgery?
- Roof of third ventricle between columns of fornices
- Endodermal, from paraphysis
- Mucous (mucopolysaccharides)
- Yes, just the rim which is usually a single layer of Goblet cells
- > 7 mm
What causes a neuroepithelial cyst?
Where are they commonly located?
Infolding of developing neuroectoderm
Located in ependyma, choroid plexus, and choroidal fissure
What are neurenteric cysts filled with?
What is their thought developmental origin?
Filled with endoderm of GI/respiratory mucosa, have interspersed Goblet cells
Fusion of notochord and gut
What is cavum septum pellucidum?
CSF between the sheets of the septum
What is cavum vergae?
A posterior communication of cavum septum pellucidum
What is cavum velum interpositum?
A cavum in 3rd ventricle due to failed fusion of tela choroidea
In what disease does a chloroma form? What part of the intracranium does it usually affect?
What is the appropriate treatment?
Leukemia, may affect the leptomeninges and is thus safe guarded from chemo by the BBB
If LP is positive then patients should received prophylactic radiation and IT chemo with MTX
Where is Histicytosis X (Langerhans cell histiocytosis) often found? What is a classic symptom?
Bone
Diabetes Insipidus
Multinucleated giant cells and Birbeck bodies are classically seen in what neoplastic process?
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
What is Letterer-Siwe disease?
Acute fulminant histiocytosis occurring in children 2-4 years old, affecting multiple organs, and causing death often by 2 years of age
What is another name for unifocal Langerhans histiocytosis?
Describe what the lesion is like?
Where may these lesions be found?
Eosinophillic granuloma
Painful, solitary, punched-out, lytic bone lesions with clear margins (rim is NOT sclerotic)
Lesions are full thickness and may involve brain, spinal cord, dura, and even vertebrae (vertebrae plana)
Any patient with unifocal Langerhans histiocytosis should be worked up with what?
What is treatment?
Skeletal survey
Excision and/or radiation
Respiratory infections, and infiltrates to lymph nodes, liver spleen, bones, orbit, pituitary, and hypothalamus may be indicative of what type of histiocytosis?
Multifocal histiocytosis
What triad of symptoms are seen in Hand-Schuller-Christian disease?
Exophthalmos, lytic bone lesions, diabetes insipidus
What is the difference between plasmacytoma and multiple myeloma?
Where do lesions typically occur?
What is classically seen on H+E?
Plasmacytoma is a single lesion, multiple myeloma is diffuse
Vertebral bodies skull, ribs
Russell bodies: Eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusions filled with Igs
Are there lytic lesions seen in Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia?
What are examples of neurologic complications seen?
No
Stroke, peripheral neuropathy, SAH
Primary CNS lymphoma may have a number of appearances on imaging. What are some coincident conditions which increase risk?
Wiskott-Aldricg syndrome, transplant patients, AIDS, collagen vascular disease, cancer, EBV infection
What does lymphoma look like on MRI imaging? What is the appropriate treatment?
Enahnces
Chemotherapy, steroids, and radiation
Are most primary CNS lymphomas B or T cell derived?
B cell (98%)
What primary tumors commonly metastasize to skull?
Breast, prostate, multiple myeloma, lung
What primary tumors commonly metastasize to epidural space (usually thoracic)?
Breast, prostate, and lung
A number of additional ones can but not as commonly
What primary tumors metastasize to dura?
Breast, lung, lymohoma, leukemia, melanoma, GI tumors
What primary tumors have leptomeningeal spread?
Breast, lung, melanoma, and gastric carcinoma
What are symptoms of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis?
Cranial neuropathies and CSF obstruction due to outflow obstrcuction (remember: leptomeninges are subarachnoid and pia)
What primary tumors have parenchymal spread and list them in descending order of prevalence?
Lung > Breast > Kidney > Melanoma > GI
What mets are commonly hemorrhagic?
Melanoma, renal cell carcinoma, choriocarcinoma
What cell type do esthesioneuroblastomas (aka olfactory neuroblastoma) typically arise from?
Are they capable of spreading into the CNS?
How old are patients who typically get this?
Neurosecretory cells/Basal cells in the high nasal cavity
It can spread to CNS
> 50 yo
What is another name for a chemodectoma?
Where does it form? Is it painful?
What substance may they produce?
What is treatment?
Carotid body tumor
Carotid bifurcation; painless
Catecholamines
Surgery and/or radiation
In what patient population do glomus jugulare tumors often arise in?
What tissue does this tumor arise from?
What is treatment and what are important treatment considerations?
Middle aged patients, more often female
Paraganglion tissue of adventitia of dome of jugular bulb, may produce catecholamines
Mastoidectomy followed by removal and radiation, since they’re very vascular thought should be lent towards preoperative embolization
Where are chordomas often found?
What is mean age of identification and sex predominance?
Clivus (40%) and Sacrum (60%)
20 to 60 yo, male
What developmental structure do chordomas arise from?
Are they benign or malignant?
Notochord
Technically benign but given their location and ability to be locally aggressive they have malignant characteristics
Can chordomas metastasize?
Can they transform to other tumor types?
Yes, they do in 25-40% of cases
Yes, sarcoma
What do chordomas look like under a microscope?
What do they stain positive for?
Lobulated with physaliphorous/bubble-bearing, large, vacuolated cellls which are surrounded by mucin.
Stains have characteristics of mesenchyme and epithelium. Cytokeratin, EMA (epithelial), and S100 (mesenchymal, neural crest)
Chondrosarcoma is positive for what stain?
S100 (but not cytokeratin or EMA, like typical chordoma)