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GALT carcinoma: three case reports with glycoprotein 2 immunohistochemistry and electron microscopic observations
Hiroko Hayashi1, Masashi Ohtani2, Yuki Sada3
1Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki, Japan.
Aims:
Gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) carcinoma is a rare colorectal tumour that arises in the epithelium covering GALT. GALT carcinoma is a differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma with dense lymphoid tissue with a characteristically well-demarcated margin. To date, 26 cases of GALT carcinoma, including the three cases discussed here, have been reported. Most (24 of 26) were discovered at early stages and none of the cases have documented any metastases. This suggests that GALT carcinoma may have a favourable prognosis. It is hypothesised that GALT carcinoma originates from M cells in specialised epithelia covering GALT. However, this hypothesis has yet to be confirmed.
Methods And Results:
In this study, we examined three cases of GALT carcinoma by immunohistochemistry detection of glycoprotein 2, a specific marker for M cells, and electron microscopy. Our findings showed that the tumour cells of GALT carcinoma in all three cases were negative for M cells. We thus concluded that GALT carcinoma may be a tubular adenocarcinoma arising by chance in the GALT. This unique carcinoma is a diferentiated adenocarcinoma that grows slowly with the development of GALT.
Conclusions:
We propose that GALT carcinoma should be classified separately because of its histological setting and good prognosis.
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