Elsevier

Human Pathology

Volume 29, Issue 8, August 1998, Pages 791-800
Human Pathology

Original contribution
Immunophenotype, proliferation, DNA ploidy, and biological behavior of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: A multivariate clinicopathologic study

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Abstract

To determine the prognostic impact of clinical, immunohistochemical, and biological parameters, we examined 52 gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) by conventional light microscopy and immunohistochemistry. DNA ploidy was analyzed by image cytometry on cytospin preparation. The proliferative activity was determined by mitosis counting and assessment of Ki-67 reactivity by means of monoclonal antibody Ki-S5. A histopathologic grade was assigned to each tumor according to the French Federation of Cancer Centers (FNCLCC) grading system. Next to vimentin, CD34 was the most prevalent antigen, followed by markers of neural and muscular differentiation. Many tumors exhibited a mixed phenotype. Twenty-one tumors were diploid, eight hypodiploid, and 23 aneuploid. In univariate analysis, tumor grade, Ki-S5 labeling index, mitotic count, atypical mitoses, cellularity, and sex were predictive of both mortality and metastasis risk. DNA ploidy only correlated with overall survival, whereas the tumor location affected the occurrence of metastases. Multivariate analysis selected Ki-S5 scores (P < .0001) and atypical mitoses (P = .012) as independent prognosticators for overall survival, and tumor grade (P = .0036) and size (P = .0055) as predictors of metastatic spread. We conclude that GIST are primitive mesenchymal tumors capable of divergent differentiation, which does not influence their prognosis. The latter appears to be best predicted by histopathologic grading and the Ki-67 labeling index.

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