Multiple familial gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumors and small intestinal neuronal dysplasia

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 198-204

  O'Brien, Paul ^a,d   Kapusta, Linda ^b,c   Dardick, Irving ^c   Axler, Jeffrey ^a   Gnidec, Allan ^a  

^a Department of Pathology ^*  (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Etobicoke General Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auerbach's plexus; Dysplasia; Familial; Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumors (GANTs); Gastrointestinal stromal tumors; Hyperplasia; Immunohistochemistry; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; CASE REPORT; DYSPLASIA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE INNERVATION; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD34; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; ORGANELLES; PEDIGREE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; SARCOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033013296     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199902000-00009     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. D'Amore ESG, Manivel JC, Pettinato G, Niehans GA, Snover DC. Intestinal ganglioneuromatosis: mucosal and transmural types. A clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of six cases. Hum Pathol 1991;22:276-86.
2. Erlandson RA, Lauwers GY, Woodruff JM. Authors' reply to letter by Min. Am J Surg Pathol 1994;18:959-60.
3. Feinstat T, Tesluk H, Schuffler MD, et al. Megacolon and neurofibromatosis: a neuronal intestinal dysplasia. Case report and review of the literature. Gastroenterology 1984;86:1573-9.
4. Herrera GA, Cerezo L, Jones JE, et al. Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumors. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1989;113:846-53.
5. Herrera GA, DeMoraes HP, Grizzle WE, Han SG. Malignant small bowel neoplasm of enteric plexus derivation (plexosarcoma): light and electron microscopic study confirming the origin of the neoplasm. Dig Dis Sci 1984;29:275-84.
6. Lauwers GY, Erlandson RA, Casper ES, Brennan MF, Woodruff JM. Gastrointestinal autonomie nerve tumors: a clinicopathological, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural study of 12 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 1993;17:887-97.
7. Miettinen M, Virolainen M, Maarit-Sarlomo-Rikala. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: value of CD34 antigen in their identification and separation from true leiomyomas and schwannomas. Am J Surg Pathol 1995;19:207-16.
8. Min K-W. Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumors and skeinoid fibers [Letter]. Am J Surg Pathol 1994;18:458-9.
9. Min K-W. Small intestinal stromal tumors with skeinoid fibers: clinicopathological, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural investigations. Am J Surg Pathol 1992;16:145-55.
10. Ojanguren I, Ariza A, Navas-Palacios JJ. Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumor: further observations regarding an ultrastructural and immunohistochemical analysis of six cases. Hum Pathol 1996;27:1311-8.
11. Perez-Atayde AR, Shamberger RC, Kozakewich HWP. Neuroectodermal differentiation of the gastrointestinal tumors in the Carney triad: an ultrastructural and immunohistochemical study. Am J Surg Pathol 1993;17:706-14.
12. Rescorla FJ, Vane DW, Fitzgerald JF, West KW, Grosfeld JL. Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-secreting ganglioneuromatosis affecting the entire colon and rectum. J Pediatr Surg 1988;23: 635-7.
13. Sakaguchi N, Sano K, Makoto I et al. A case of von Recklinghausen's disease with bilateral pheochromocytoma: malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors of the adrenal and gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumors. Am J Surg Pathol 1996;20:889-97.
14. Schofield DE, Yunis EJ. What is intestinal neuronal dysplasia? In: Rosen PP, Fechner RE, eds. Pathol Annu, Part 1. Norwalk, Connecticut: Appleton and Lange, 1992:249-62.
15. Shekitka KM, Sobin LH. Ganglioneuromas of the gastrointestinal tract: relation to von Recklinghausen's disease and other multiple tumor syndromes. Am J Surg Pathol 1994;18:250-7.
16. Tsang WYW. Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve (GAN) tumors: an underrecognized group of gastrointestinal stromal neoplasms. Adv Anat Pathol 1994;1:21-8.
17. Walsh NMG, Bodurtha A. Auerbach's myenteric plexus: a possible site of origin for gastrointestinal stromal tumors in von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1990;114: 522-5.