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Extracutaneous infantile haemangioma is also Glut1 positive
  1. R M Drut,
  2. R Drut
  1. Department of Pathology, Hospital de Niños “Superiora Sor María Ludovica”, 1900, La Plata, Argentina
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr R M Drut
 Department of Pathology, Hospital de Niños “Superiora Sor María Ludovica”, 1900, La Plata, Argentina; patologinetverk.com.ar

Abstract

Aim: To investigate whether extracutaneous infantile haemangioma-like tumours are immunohistochemically similar to cutaneous infantile haemangiomas.

Methods: Mammary, salivary gland, liver (one each), and placental (two cases) capillary haemangiomas and typical examples of cutaneous (eight cases) infantile haemangioma were investigated immunohistochemically for α smooth muscle actin and Glut1, a proposed marker for the skin localised lesion. Positive internal controls included red blood cells, perineurium, trophoblast, and endothelial cells of the placental capillaries. Extralesional vessel endothelium acted as a negative control (except in the placenta). The liver haemangioma and both chorioangiomas presented in patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.

Results: The endothelial cells of all the vascular lesions were Glut1 positive. These were consistently surrounded by a rim of α smooth muscle actin positive pericytic cells. Controls reacted appropriately.

Conclusions: All infantile haemangiomas were immunohistochemically positive for Glut1: expression of this molecule was not limited to infantile haemangiomas of the skin. These tumours comprise proliferations of both endothelial and pericytic cells. The association with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome may provide a clue to the molecular genetics of infantile haemangioma.

  • IH, infantile haemangioma
  • Glut1
  • chorioangioma
  • infantile haemangioma

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