Adult-onset mastocytosis in the skin is highly suggestive of systemic mastocytosis

Berezowska, Sabina Anna; Flaig, Michael J.; Ruëff, Franziska; Walz, Christoph; Haferlach, Torsten; Krokowski, Manuela; Kerler, Roswitha; Petat-Dutter, Karina; Horny, Hans-Peter; Sotlar, Karl (2014). Adult-onset mastocytosis in the skin is highly suggestive of systemic mastocytosis. Modern pathology, 27(1), pp. 19-29. Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/modpathol.2013.117

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Adult-onset urticaria pigmentosa/mastocytosis in the skin almost always persists throughout life. The prevalence of systemic mastocytosis in such patients is not precisely known. Bone marrow biopsies from 59 patients with mastocytosis in the skin and all available skin biopsies (n=27) were subjected to a meticulous cytological, histological, immunohistochemical, and molecular analysis for the presence of WHO-defined diagnostic criteria for systemic mastocytosis: compact mast cell infiltrates (major criterion); atypical mast cell morphology, KIT D816V, abnormal expression of CD25 by mast cells, and serum tryptase levels >20 ng/ml (minor criteria). Systemic mastocytosis is diagnosed when the major diagnostic criterion plus one minor criterion or at least three minor criteria are fulfilled. Systemic mastocytosis was confirmed in 57 patients (97%) by the diagnosis of compact mast cell infiltrates plus at least one minor diagnostic criterion (n=42, 71%) or at least three minor diagnostic criteria (n=15, 25%). In two patients, only two minor diagnostic criteria were detectable, insufficient for the diagnosis of systemic mastocytosis. By the use of highly sensitive molecular methods, including the analysis of microdissected mast cells, KIT D816V was found in all 58 bone marrow biopsies investigated for it but only in 74% (20/27) of the skin biopsies. It is important to state that even in cases with insufficient diagnostic criteria for systemic mastocytosis, KIT D816V-positive mast cells were detected in the bone marrow. This study demonstrates, for the first time, that almost all patients with adult-onset mastocytosis in the skin, in fact, have systemic mastocytosis with cutaneous involvement.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology

UniBE Contributor:

Berezowska, Sabina Anna

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

0893-3952

Publisher:

Nature Publishing Group

Language:

English

Submitter:

Andrea Arnold

Date Deposited:

02 Apr 2014 14:58

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:30

Publisher DOI:

10.1038/modpathol.2013.117

PubMed ID:

23807778

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.45886

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/45886

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