Special Stains, Immunohistochemistry and Genomic Testing ...handouts.uscap.org/AN2015/Companion...
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Special Stains, Immunohistochemistry and Genomic Testing of the Liver:
A Practical Guide for the Practicing Pathologist
Michael Torbenson, MD
USCAP, 2015 Annual Meeting
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Overview
• No conflicts of Interest
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Overview
• Up‐front stains (ordered automatically)• Stains in medical liver biopsies, general guidelines
• Stains in tumor biopsies, general guidelines• Molecular tests
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Up‐Front Stains
• Most common stains ordered automatically on medical liver biopsies:– H&E– Iron– PASD– PAS– Reticulin– Trichrome (or Sirius Red)
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Up‐Front Stains
• All of these stains are useful,
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Up‐Front Stains
• All of these stains are useful, but
They are not equally useful
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Up‐Front Stains
• All of these stains are useful, but
They are not equally useful
• One example, many centers manage very well without: – PAS– Reticulin
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Up‐Front Stains
• Second example, sometimes iron and PASD stains are non‐contributory– such as post transplant liver biopsies
• There are no validated, published guidelines for which stains to order automatically
• The stains used in any center are based on local preferences and history
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Up‐Front Stains
Next:some general observations
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Up‐Front Stains
• H&E: Needed, all agree
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Up‐Front Stains
• H&E: Helpful in all biopsies
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Up‐Front Stains
• H&E: Helpful in all biopsies • Trichrome: Helpful in nearly all biopsies
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Up‐Front Stains
• H&E: Helpful in all biopsies • Trichrome: Helpful in almost all biopsies
– One could argue a Trichrome stain is less useful when the H&E shows established cirrhosis
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Up‐Front Stains
• H&E: Helpful in all biopsies • Trichrome: Helpful in almost all biopsies• Iron stain: Helpful in most biopsies
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Up‐Front Stains
• H&E: Helpful in all biopsies • Trichrome: Helpful in almost all biopsies• Iron stain: Helpful in most biopsies
– An alternative approach: • Order iron stains on biopsies with visible pigment visible on H&E, or abnormal serum Fe testing
– This approach will miss minimal or mild patchy iron in hepatocytes or Kupffer cells
– But there is little/no clinical consequence to very small amounts of iron in the liver
• More details in hand out
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Up‐Front Stains
• H&E: Helpful in all biopsies • Trichrome: Helpful in almost all biopsies• Iron stain: Helpful in most biopsies• PASD stain: Helpful in many biopsies
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Up‐Front Stains• H&E: Helpful in all biopsies • Trichrome: Helpful in almost all biopsies• Iron stain: Helpful in most biopsies• PASD stain: Helpful in many biopsies
– A1AT globules can be hard to see on H&E– PASD doesn't add much to follow‐up biopsies in individuals with chronic liver disease
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Up‐Front Stains
• H&E: Helpful in all biopsies • Trichrome: Helpful in almost all biopsies• Iron stain: Helpful in many biopsies• PASD stain: Helpful in many biopsies• Reticulin Stain: Helpful in some cases
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Up‐Front Stains
• H&E: Helpful in all biopsies • Trichrome: Helpful in almost all biopsies• Iron stain: Helpful in many biopsies• PASD stain: Helpful in many biopsies• Reticulin Stain: Helpful in some cases
– Main role in non tumor pathology is nodular regenerative hyperplasia
– Stain could be ordered based on H&E findings and clinical findings
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Up‐Front Stains
• H&E: Helpful in all biopsies • Trichrome: Helpful in almost all biopsies• Iron stain: Helpful in many biopsies• PASD stain: Helpful in many biopsies• Reticulin stain: Helpful in some cases• PAS stain: Helpful in rare cases
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Up‐Front Stains
• H&E: Helpful in all biopsies • Trichrome: Helpful in almost all biopsies• Iron stain: Helpful in many biopsies• PASD stain: Helpful in many biopsies• Reticulin stain: Helpful in some cases• PAS stain: Helpful in rare cases
– Primarily in working up intra‐cytoplasmic globules– Limited value as an up front stain
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Up‐Front Stains
H&ETrichrome IronPASDReticulinPAS
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Up‐Front Stains
H&ETrichrome IronPASDReticulinPAS
All cases
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Up‐Front Stains
H&ETrichrome IronPASDReticulinPAS
All biopsies
Baseline biopsiesOthers, PRN
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Up‐Front Stains
H&ETrichrome IronPASDReticulinPAS
All biopsies
Baseline biopsiesOthers as PRN
PRN
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Special Stains for the Medical Liver Biopsy
• In your handout:– A comprehensive list of almost all of the stains I have ever used, with some annotation
– I cannot cover them all today– We’ll touch on just a few
• Focused on the most commonly used stains
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Trichrome
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Trichrome stain
Fibrosis Stage
Many different staging systems
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Staging schemas are similar
• Essentially all are based on the following conceptual stages: – No fibrosis– Portal fibrosis (AKA periportal fibrosis)– Bridging fibrosis– Cirrhosis
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Staging schemas are similar
Staging systems vary only in how they subdivide these conceptual stages
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General Comparison of the Most Commonly Used Staging Systems
MHAI HAI METAVIR DESMET SCHEUER BATTS/LUDWIG
0 0 0 0 0 01 1 1 1 1 12 1 1 1 1,2 1,2
3 3* 2 2,3** 2 24 3 3 2,3 3 35 3 3 2,3 3 36 4 4 4 4 4
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Trichrome stain
• Giving a “F” number is not necessary for clinical care– But if you or your clinical colleagues like them, they are perfectly fine to use
• All work pretty well for clinical care• See handout of more details
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Adequacy
• Adequacy:
–General rule of thumb for clinical care:
•Bigger is better•At least 1 cm and or 10 portal tracts • Smaller sized biopsies tend to understage
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Staging pitfalls
Pitfalls:A few make up most
(~80%)
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Staging Pitfalls: Portal Fibrosis
Marked portalInflammationOr ductularreaction
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Staging pitfalls: bridging fibrosis
• Bridging necrosis
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Staging pitfalls: Cirrhosis
• Intact cores are better than fragmented cores
– Fragmented biopsy does not equal cirrhosis – Very fragmented specimens are associated with cirrhosis
• Specimens with >12 fragments in one study
– Stage what you see, indicate limitations• Don’t “upstage” what you cant see
because of fragmentation
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Iron Stain
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Hepatic Iron
• Perls iron stain• Interpretation is typically straight forward• See handout for more details
– Quantitative iron analysis– Hepatic iron index
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Hepatic Iron
“Guidelines” on when to suggest genetic testingH(a)emochromatosis
Based oniron stain results
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Hepatic Iron
“Guidelines” on when to suggest genetic hemochromatosis testing
5 rules
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Hepatic Iron
1. Work up for neonatal hemochromatosis– Neonate or stillbirth with
• Marked liver injury/necrosis • Hepatic iron• extrahepatic iron deposits
(no known genetic tests, but can prevent future pregnancy problems with IgG)
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Hepatic Iron
2. Mild iron– Age less than 40– No fibrosis– No other history/chronic liver disease to explain
the iron
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Hepatic Iron
3. Moderate or marked iron – Any age– Non‐cirrhotic liver– Can have chronic liver disease, eg HCV, NASH– No history of transfusion dependent anemia
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Hepatic Iron
4. Marked iron in any liver– regardless of fibrosis stage– Regardless of age– Can have chronic liver disease, eg HCV, NASH• With no history of transfusion dependent anemia
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Hepatic Iron
Summary of rules 2‐4 (assumes no history of transfusion dependent anemias)
Iron levelsMarked : AllModerate: All non‐cirrhotic liversMild: Only if young, non‐cirrhotic,
and no chronic liver disease on biopsy (eg hepatitis, NAFLD, etc)
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Hepatic Iron
5. Kupffer cell predominant iron with history of elevated ferritin and low saturation levels
– suggest evaluation for ferroportin disease
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Using other stains: ? Cholestatic liver disease
• Evidence for chronic cholestatic disease– CK7 (looking for intermediate hepatocytes, which is seen as staining of periportal hepatocytes)
– Copper (periportal copper deposition)– These stains are useful only on non‐cirrhoticlivers
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Immunohistochemical stains for liver tumors
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Basik Approach to Diagnosis
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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Basic Approach to HCC
Lets say you have a biopsy of the liver
You examine the biopsy carefully
You identify a possible mass
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Basic Approach to Diagnosis
You’re ready to take it to the next level
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Basic Approach to Diagnosis
Immunohistochemistry!
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Basic Approach to Diagnosis
OK! But answer this question FIRST:
Based on H&E findings, which of the following is true:
A. The tissue is all liver, but I’m not sure if some of it is cancer.
B. The tissue has definite cancer, but I’m not sure if its HCC or metastatic.
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Basik Approach
Get this First question right!
(Getting it wrong leads to stains that arent needed—often limiting the quality of the final diagnosis)
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Answer A. The biopsy is all liver, but I’m not sure if there is cancer
• Reticulin stain• Ki‐67• Glypican 3• CD34
• Consider others depending on the H&E differential; eg Glutamine synthetase for FNH
Basic Approach
This list is in your handout
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Basic Approach
B. The tumor is definitely cancer, but is it HCC?
• HepPar1• Glypican 3• Arginase 1• Albumin in situ hybridization• CD10 or pCEA• AFP
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Basic Approach
Special stains; sensitivity and specificity
HepPar1 vs Glypican 3 vs Arginase 1• These “big 3” are the most widely used• Their absolute performance in any study depends on
• Tumor grade• Underlying liver disease• Hepatocellular carcinoma morphologies included in study
All perform best with moderately differentiated tumors– For poorly differentiated tumors, I prefer a panel
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Laws of IHC for HCC
Immutable laws of IHC
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Laws of IHC for HCC
No. 1. The first paper is the best.
The sensitivity and specificity of a stain invariably falls as more papers are published.
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Laws of IHC for HCC
No. 2. Immunostains are most powerful
when used
with H&E
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HepPar1
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Adenocarcinoma
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Laws of IHC for HCC
No. 3. If H&E fits poorly with IHC, resolve with additional
studies
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History
Example • 74 year old female• 4.3 cm single liver mass• Needle bx
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HepPar
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Outside hepPar control (on same slide as tissue)
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Work‐up
Because the submitted HepPar was negative, I worked up for metastatic clear cell carcinoma.
– The only stain (from a long list) that was positive was cam5.2.
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Repeat HepPar
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Arginase
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Diagnostic pitfall: entrapped hepatocytes
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Laws of IHC for HCC
No. 4. If you want to use a diagnostic stain,
use it enough to be good at using it.
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Laws of IHC for HCC
A difficult case is the wrong time for a stain you’re not familiar with.
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Laws of IHC for HCC
1. Sensitivity/specificity fall as data increases.2. Morphology & immunostains together.3. If morphology and IHC disagree, resolve
with additional studies.4. If you want to use a diagnostic stain,
use it often enough to be good at using it.
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Immunostains for PrognosisImmunohistochemical markersCK19, worseP53, worseAFP, worseBeta catenin, better
None of these have entered routine clinical care at most USA and Canada centers (yet).– CK19 is more widely used in Europe
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Immunostains for Carcinoma subtype
• Fibrolamellar carcinoma– High level of over diagnosis
• Up to 20%, even in articles published in top level specialty journals
– Special stains can resolve almost all of these cases, and maybe all of them
• All fibrolamellar carcinomas are CD68 and CK7 positive
• If a tumor is negative for either, the odds are extraordinarily low that your diagnosis of fibrolamellar carcinoma is correct
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H&E Stain
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CD68 Stain Fibrolamellar Carcinoma
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CK7 Stain Fibrolamellar Carcinoma
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Molecular Tests
• Molecular tests for diagnosis– Fibrolamellar carcinoma.
• Highly sensitive and specific intra-chromosomal deletion leading to a DNAJB1-PRKACA fusion
• If the tumor does not have this translocation, the odds are extraordinarily low that your diagnosis of fibrolamellar carcinoma is correct
• Can detect by RT-PCR or FISH
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Molecular Tests
• Molecular tests for therapy– Preliminary studies reporting VEGFA
amplification is a useful marker for Sorafenibtherapy.
• Not been well validated
• FGFR2 translocations in cholangiocarcinoma– 15-45% of cases positive– Testing by RT-PCR or FISH– Predicts response to FGFR2 inhibitors
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