摘要
To overcome the difficulties in the interpretation of postoperative tumor obtaining biopsy cores for patients who treated their prostate cancer with high-intensity focussed ultrasound (HIFU) therapy. %26lt;br%26gt;The H%26E slides of 58 patients with residual prostate cancer after HIFU treatment were systematically reviewed. Correlation between the pathologist%26apos;s findings and immunohistochemical expression of MIB-1, alpha-Methyl-Co-Racemase and 34 beta E-12 staining was analyzed. %26lt;br%26gt;Mean time from treatment to biopsy was 40.2 (8-208) weeks. The expert review of the H%26E slides identified 40 patients with viable carcinoma in the post-HIFU biopsy cores. 18 patients were revised to necrosis-only-tumors. These biopsies were performed not later than 16 weeks after HIFU treatment (median 10.9 weeks, range 8-14). Both MIB-1 and AMACR staining displayed significant differential expression in viable carcinoma (p %26lt; 0.001) compared to necrosis tumors. Referring to viable carcinoma tissue, AMACR staining index was significantly rising, the longer treatment dated back from biopsy (p %26lt; 0.002). In this context, 34-beta-E12 stained negative through all tumor areas and positive in the majority (85%) of the surrounding non-neoplastic epithelium. %26lt;br%26gt;AMACR and MIB-1 reliably differentiate viable carcinoma from a process of ongoing irreversible necrosis in early post-HIFU prostate biopsy cores and therefore proposed-in addition with 34 beta-E12-as useful markers exposing suspicious tumor foci in difficult cases.
- 出版日期2013-10