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Immunohistochemical Predictors for Intestinal and Pancreatobiliary Types of Adenocarcinoma of The Ampulla of Vater

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Abstract

Objectives

To investigate immunohistochemical predictors for intestinal and pancreatobiliary types of adenocarcinoma of ampulla of Vater and identify clinicopathological characteristics associated with the histological types and patient survival.

Methods

Immunohistochemical markers included MUC1, MUC2, MUC5AC, CDX2, CK7, and CK20. The data were analyzed by univariate and multivariate methods. The two-step cluster method was used to determine the best immunohistochemical markers to discriminate the intestinal from the pancreatobiliary type.

Results

This study identified 9 (33.3%) intestinal and 21 (66.7%) pancreatobiliary tumors. CK7 and CDX2 achieved the highest value (= 1) as predictor markers, while CK20, MUC1, and MUC2 showed degrees of importance equal to 0.77, 0.71, and 0.68, respectively. MUC5AC did not reach 0.50 of importance. In the univariate analysis, lymph node involvement, staging (TNM), and angiolymphatic and perineural invasions were associated with histological types. The independent clinicopathological variable in the multivariate model to predict the histological type was angiolymphatic invasion (p = 0.005), OR = 17 (95% CI 2.33 to 123.83). The final model showed positive nodes (N1) associated with shorter survival (HR = 9.5; p = 0.006). Overall survival at 12, 36, and 60 months was 88.5, 67.0, and 47.6%, respectively.

Conclusions

CDX2 and CK7 were the immunohistochemical markers that best discriminated the intestinal from the pancreatobiliary type. Lymph node involvement had a high impact on survival and proved to be more frequent in the pancreatobiliary type.

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This study is financially supported by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPQ) .

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  1. Department of Surgery, Medical School, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Rua Sergipe, 67 apto 2401, Bairro Funcionários, Belo Horizonte, CEP 30130 170, Brazil

    João Paulo Lemos da Silveira Santos, João Bernardo Sancio Rocha Rodrigues & Vivian Resende

  2. Department of Epidemiology, Medical School, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Carla Jorge Machado

  3. Department of Histopathology, Medical School, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Eduardo Paulino Junior & Paula Teixeira Vidigal

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João Paulo Lemos da Silveira Santos and João Bernardo Sancio Rocha Rodrigues: collecting data, drafting, and final approval of the work.

Carla Jorge Machado: statistical analysis, drafting, and final approval of the work.

Eduardo Paulino Junior and Paula Teixeira Vidigal: interpretation and immunohistochemical analysis, drafting and final approval of the work.

Vivian Resende: conception and design, drafting and final approval of the work.

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This research was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), logged under protocol number CAAE 23377113.1.0000.5149.

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da Silveira Santos, J.P.L., Machado, C.J., Junior, E.P. et al. Immunohistochemical Predictors for Intestinal and Pancreatobiliary Types of Adenocarcinoma of The Ampulla of Vater. J Gastrointest Surg 22, 1171–1178 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-018-3797-7

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