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Extensive biliary intraepithelial neoplasia (BilIN) and multifocal early intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in non-biliary cirrhosis
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Rougemont-Pidoux, Anne-Laure
Genevay-Infante, Muriel
Mckee, Thomas Alexander
Gremaud, Magali
Mentha, Gilles
Rubbia-Brandt, Laura
Published in Virchows Archiv. 2010, vol. 456, no. 6, p. 711-717
Abstract Biliary intraepithelial neoplasia (BilIN), a preneoplastic condition that may precede invasive intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC), has been compared to pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN), a precursor lesion of pancreatic carcinoma. Biliary tract carcinoma development and progression is associated with several gene alterations, but BilIN lesions have yet to be studied in detail by molecular techniques. We describe a case of extensive intrahepatic biliary dysplasia, with lesions ranging from BilIN-1 to BilIN-3 lesions, and multifocal microscopic ICC in hepatitis C virus (HCV)- and alcohol-related cirrhosis. The small ICC foci had remained undetected prior to transplantation. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis was performed on three foci of BilIN-3 lesions and on three microinvasive ICC foci with a combination of three FISH probes directed against genes frequently altered in pancreatic and biliary tract carcinomas. FISH analysis revealed a CDKNA2 heterozygous deletion in one BilIN-3 focus, and in one non-contiguous ICC focus, although the deletion was just above the chosen threshold. No deletions were detected in the genomic regions encoding TP53 and SMAD4. This report documents for the first time the development of multifocal ICC in the setting of extensive biliary dysplasia in a patient with three risk factors, HCV infection, alcohol abuse, and cirrhosis, and suggests heterogeneous carcinogenesis in ICC and possible involvement of the CDKNA2 gene.
Keywords Adult — Bile Duct Neoplasms/genetics/ pathology — Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic — Cholangiocarcinoma/genetics/ pathology — Genes, p16 — Humans — In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence — Liver Cirrhosis/ pathology — Male — Precancerous Conditions/genetics/ pathology
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PMID: 20428886
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de chirurgie
Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine fondamentale / Département de pathologie et immunologie
Research groups Hépatologie chirurgicale (327)
Métastases du foie (657)
Lymphomes MALT et réplication virale (807)
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(ISO format) 		ROUGEMONT-PIDOUX, Anne-Laure et al. Extensive biliary intraepithelial neoplasia (BilIN) and multifocal early intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in non-biliary cirrhosis. In: Virchows Archiv, 2010, vol. 456, n° 6, p. 711-717. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:20704

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