Affiliation:
1. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to indicate how the pathologist may suspect a diagnosis of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) on the basis of histological criteria and patient age alone. A single morphological feature, namely the presence of intra-epithelial lymphocytes (tumor infiltrating lymphocytes), identifies the majority of colorectal cancers (CRC) with the DNA microsatellite instability-high phenotype. A number of pathological criteria can help to distinguish HNPCC from sporadic MSI-H CRC, though age below 60 years is an important pointer towards HNPCC. Immunohistochemistry to demonstrate loss of expression of DNA mismatch repair genes serves as a highly reliable test of mismatch repair deficiency if antibodies to hMLH1, hMSH2, hMSH6 and hPMS2 are employed.
Subject
Biochemistry, medical,Clinical Biochemistry,Genetics,Molecular Biology,General Medicine
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