neuroblastoma

Digital cases

 Case 223: Post-chemotherapy neuroblastic tumor

Definition: Poorly differentiated type of neuroblastic tumors.

Localization

 soft tissue

• retroperitoneal region, paravertebral region
• mediastinum
• pelvic region (10813335)
• urachus (10382205)

 urinary bladder (12891516, 11070482, 10224211)

Variants

 undifferentiated neuroblastoma
 poorly differentiated
 differentiating
 large cell neuroblastoma (14716776)
 ganglioneuroblastoma
 in situ neuroblastoma (16010489)

Age

 neonatal neuroblastoma (fetal neuroblastoma)
 infantile neuroblastoma
 adult neuroblastoma

Cytognetics

 constitutional translocation t(1;17)(p36;q12-21)
Ploidy

 hyperdiploidy (or near triploidy)

• lower stages
• favorable outcome

 Diploidy is a strong prognostic predictor of outcome.

Molecular biology

 gene amplifications

• MYCN gene amplification (MYCN-amplified neuroblastomas)
  • amplification of N-myc (MYCN) in neuroblastoma is strongly correlated with loss of 1p36 and gain of 17q.
  • more common in patients older than 1 year with advanced stages of the disease

 gene mutations

• NME1 (NM23) somatic mutations in advanced neuroblastoma (MIM.15490)

 gain of chromosome 17q

• unbalanced chromosome 17 translocations (14695994)
• not associated with poor prognosis (14581355)

 LOH - Allelotype: 11912152, 15892104

• 1p36 LOH
• 11q23 LOH (10490829)

CGH (16075461, 17823929)

CGH Gains

CGH Losses

Genetic subsets (1325279)

 1. hyperdiploid karyotype (or near-triploid karyotype)
 2. near-diploid karyotype with no consistent anomalies
 3. 1p36 LOH or MYCN amplification (or both) with near-diploid or tetraploid karyotype

 A subset of tumors with a clinically benign phenotype showed predominantly whole chromosome gains and losses. (17647283)

 Tumors with MYCN amplification had a unique genomic signature of 1p deletion and 17q gain, but few other rearrangements. (17647283)

 Tumors with an aggressive clinical phenotype without MYCN amplification, showed multiple structural rearrangements. Most notable were deletions of 3p, 4p, and 11q and gain of 1q, 2p, 12q, and 17q. (17647283)

 There is a subset of tumors with an aggressive clinical phenotype and no detectable DNA CNAs. (17647283)

Miscellaneous

 schwannian cells and neuroblastic cells have the same genetic alterations ? (11107110, 11559566)
 CpG-island hypermethylation of gene promoters: 14506696

Predisposition

 abnormal constitutional karyotypes in patients with neuroblastoma

• mosaicism for monosomy 22
• constitutional 11q interstitial deletion (14662434, 14623457)
• pericentric inversion of chromosome 9 at band 9p21
• robertsonian translocation t(13;14)
• 47, XXX karyotype (14499703)

 familial neuroblastoma (12880958)

• germline mutations of the paired-like homeobox 2B PHOX2B gene (15024693)

 probable excess of neuroblastoma in patients with Turner syndrome (14623457)

Constitutional chromosomal anomalies

 mosaicism for monosomy 22
 11q interstitial deletion
 pericentric inversion of chromosome 9 at band 9p21
 Robertsonian translocation t(13;14)

 chromosomal rearrangements

• 1p36
• 2p23
• 3q
• 11q23
• 15q
• 1p
• 2p
• 9p
• 11q
• 16q
• 17q

Hypermethylation

 Frequent promoter hypermethylation of RASSF1A and CASP8 in neuroblastoma (17064406)

See also

 neuroblastic tumors

• neuroblastoma
• ganglioneuroblastoma
• ganglioneuroma

Pathology reviews

 Joshi VV. Peripheral neuroblastic tumors: pathologic classification based on recommendations of international neuroblastoma pathology committee (Modification of shimada classification). Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2000 Mar-Apr;3(2):184-99. PMID: 10679039

References - CGH and genetics

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 Overall genomic pattern is a predictor of outcome in neuroblastoma. Janoueix-Lerosey I, Schleiermacher G, Michels E, Mosseri V, Ribeiro A, Lequin D, Vermeulen J, Couturier J, Peuchmaur M, Valent A, Plantaz D, Rubie H, Valteau-Couanet D, Thomas C, Combaret V, Rousseau R, Eggert A, Michon J, Speleman F, Delattre O. J Clin Oncol. 2009 Mar 1;27(7):1026-33. PMID: 19171713

 Microtubule-associated protein-2 is a sensitive marker of primary and metastatic neuroblastoma. Krishnan C, Higgins JP, West RB, Natkunam Y, Heerema-McKenney A, Arber DA. Am J Surg Pathol. 2009 Nov;33(11):1695-704. PMID: 19701075

 ArrayCGH-based classification of neuroblastoma into genomic subgroups. Michels E, Vandesompele J, De Preter K, Hoebeeck J, Vermeulen J, Schramm A, Molenaar JJ, Menten B, Marques B, Stallings RL, Combaret V, Devalck C, De Paepe A, Versteeg R, Eggert A, Laureys G, Van Roy N, Speleman F. Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2007 Sep 6; PMID: 17823929

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PMID: 17647283

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