Frequent Diagnostic Under-Grading in Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Wild-Type Gliomas due to Small Pathological Tissue Samples.

Gutt-Will, Marielena; Murek, Michael; Schwarz, Christa; Hewer, Ekkehard; Vulcu, Sonja; Beck, Jürgen; Raabe, Andreas; Schucht, Philippe (2019). Frequent Diagnostic Under-Grading in Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Wild-Type Gliomas due to Small Pathological Tissue Samples. Neurosurgery, 85(5), pp. 689-694. Oxford University Press 10.1093/neuros/nyy433

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BACKGROUND

In contrast to isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutation analysis, which is homogenous within a given tumor, diagnostic errors in histological analysis following the 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) classification could be due to small samples because of histological heterogeneity.

OBJECTIVE

To assess whether the sample size sent to histopathology influences the tumor grading in IDH wild-type gliomas.

METHODS

Histologically diagnosed WHO grade, sample volume, and preoperative tumor volume data of 111 patients aged who received resection of IDHwt gliomas between January 2007 and December 2015 at our hospital were evaluated. The differences between absolute and relative pathological sample sizes stratified by WHO grade were conducted using One-Way-Permutation-Test.

RESULTS

With a mean sample size of 10.9 cc, 83.8% of patients were histologically diagnosed as WHO grade IV, while 16.2% of patients with a mean sample size of 2.62 cc were diagnosed as WHO grade II/III. One-Way-Permutation-Test showed a significant difference between absolute tissue samples stratified by WHO grade (P = .0374). The distribution of preoperative tumor volumes with WHO grade IV vs WHO grade II/III showed no significant difference (P = .8587). Of all tumors with a sample size >10 cc 100% were pathologically diagnosed as WHO grade IV and those with sample size >5 cc 93.5% were diagnosed as WHO grade IV.

CONCLUSION

Small sample sizes are associated with a higher risk of under-estimating malignancy in histological grading in IDHwt gliomas. This study suggests a standard minimum sample size (>5cc) in every resection. Modalities of adjuvant treatment for IDHwt, WHO grade II/III gliomas need to reflect a prognosis that is only marginally better than of a glioblastoma.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurosurgery
04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology

UniBE Contributor:

Murek, Michael, Schwarz, Christa, Hewer, Ekkehard Walter, Vulcu, Sonja, Beck, Jürgen, Raabe, Andreas, Schucht, Philippe

Subjects:

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

ISSN:

1524-4040

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Ekkehard Hewer

Date Deposited:

14 Nov 2018 08:33

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:31

Publisher DOI:

10.1093/neuros/nyy433

PubMed ID:

30335178

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.121120

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/121120

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