21/07/2017. CS Verbeke. Non-neoplastic disease of the pancreas PATHOLOGY OF NON-NEOPLASTIC PANCREATIC DISEASES

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1 Non-neoplastic disease of the pancreas No indication for surgical resection of non-neoplastic disease (except end-stage chronic pancreatitis) Unexpected benign disease in 5-13% of pancreatic resections PATHOLOGY OF NON-NEOPLASTIC PANCREATIC DISEASES CS Verbeke vast majority of lesions are neoplastic/malignant obtaining a positive biopsy can be difficult and time-consuming (ill-founded) issues over needle track seeding Suspicion of malignancy Suspicion of malignancy mass jaundice dilatation of the bile duct or pancreatic duct double duct sign mass jaundice dilatation of the bile duct or pancreatic duct double duct sign 1

2 Suspicion of malignancy Non-neoplastic disease of the pancreas mass jaundice Solid Mass Cystic Double/single duct dilatation bile duct or pancreatic duct dilatation double duct sign Pancreatitis NOS autoimmune follicular groove vasculitis infectious Ectopia Endocrine hyperplasia Retention cyst Pseudocyst Enterog. duplication cyst Periampullary lesions ectopia groove pancreatitis adenomyomatous hyperplasia ampulla diverticulum pancreas annulare Cholangitis/cholelithiasis Gerritsen et al. Ann Surg Oncol 2014 Groove pancreatitis Syn. paraduodenal pancreatitis, cystic dystrophy of the duodenum Pancreas annulare 2

3 Non-neoplastic disease of the pancreas Solid Mass Cystic Double/single duct dilatation Pancreatitis NOS autoimmune follicular groove vasculitis infectious Ectopia Endocrine hyperplasia Retention cyst Pseudocyst Enterog. duplication cyst Periampullary lesions ectopia groove pancreatitis adenomyomatous hyperplasia ampulla diverticulum pancreas annulare Cholangitis/cholelithiasis Retention cysts Retention cysts Pseudocysts Hruban & Verbeke - Cystic tumors of the pancreas, Springer

4 Duplication cyst 4

5 Non-neoplastic disease of the pancreas Solid Mass Pancreatitis NOS autoimmune follicular groove vasculitis infectious Ectopia Endocrine hyperplasia Cystic Retention cyst Pseudocyst Enterog. duplication cyst Double/single duct dilatation Periampullary lesions ectopia groove pancreatitis adenomyomatous hyperplasia ampulla diverticulum pancreas annulare Cholangitis/cholelithiasis Autoimmune pancreatitis: mimicry of PDAC Inhomogeneous signal; tumour mass Stenosis of pancreatic duct Autoimmune pancreatitis Type 1: Peripancreatic infiltration Bile duct stricture Enlarged lymph nodes Enlarged ampulla vateri Involvement of SMV Paraaortic extension 5

6 Focal AIP AIP Portal vein Infectious pancreatitis tuberculosis 6

7 Infectious pancreatitis tuberculosis actinomyces 7

8 Male, 52 yr Chronic pancreatitis diagnosed 8 years ago In recent months: gradual deterioration, weight loss, abdominal pain CT: suspicion of ill-defined mass in head of pancreas extension into duodenum enlarged peripancreatic lymph nodes Whipple s resection Pancreatic tuberculosis and actinomycosis Seldom Can occur in isolation Can mimic pancreatic cancer: pancreatic mass infiltration of surrounding tissues, incl. SMV lymphadenopathy liver lesions Occasional low fever, night sweats Actinomyces: in patients with chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic/bile duct stent 8

9 Endocrine cell hyperplasia ±150 µm ( 300 µm) Insulin (brown) & glucagon (red) Reactive endocrine cell hyperplasia Secundary (reactive) endocrine cell hyperplasia Often in association with pancreatic atrophy Focal or diffuse Islets: increased in number and size Multihormonal expression preserved, but usually with a relative increase of glucagon-producing cells Cave: perineural growth 9

10 Reactive endocrine cell hyperplasia Reactive endocrine cell hyperplasia Normal pancreas Insulin (brown) & glucagon (red) Reactive endocrine cell hyperplasia Endocrine cell hyperplasia (primary) Diffuse and specific increase in the number of one particular endocrine cell type (e.g. -cells) Can affect -, -, and PP-cells Histological diagnosis Clinically heterogenous Endocrine cell hyperplasia (primary) Cell type Pt age Clinical picture Hormone serum level Histology Mutation Risk for NET Alpha-cell hyperplasia Newborn Adult Hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia Increased Focal/diffuse Enlarged islet All cell types represented More and larger islets Increased number cells ATP-sensitive K + channel? No Adult Glucagonoma syndrome No syndrome Increased Normal / increased More and larger islets Increased number cells? Glucagon receptor inactivation Yes (glucagonoma & other) PP Adult No syndrome Increased More and larger islets Increased number PP cells? No? Yu Run - J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2014;99:748 10

11 Courtesy of Prof AP Griffiths, Swansea, UK; Al-Sarireh et al. Pancreas 2013;42:360 Synaptophysin Glucagon Insulin 11

12 MEN1 Endocrine microadenomatosis Glucagon cell hyperplasia Islets > 250 m Increased number of islets Overwhelming increase in the number of -cells Reversal of -/ -cell ratio in all the pancreatic sections examined No MEN1 or von Hippel-Lindau disease MEN1 Endocrine microadenomatosis α-cell hyperplasia insulin glucagon SST PP negative GCGR (Glucagon receptor) Reactive (Mahvash disease) Mutated Serum glucagon Presenting symptoms Nonspecific α-cell hyperplasia α-cells Glucagon Reactive (Mahvash disease)? GCGR (Glucagon receptor) Mutated Liver Glucose output Serum glucagon Presenting symptoms Nonspecific 12

13 α-cells Glucagon? GCGR mutation Liver Glucose output α-cells are intrinsically normal, but as a consequence of hormonally driven -cell neogenesis (not increased proliferation), the -cell population becomes hyperplastic. In animal models, the disease is reversible upon restitution of GCGR-expression Ki67 Insulin α-cell hyperplasia α-cell hyperplasia Reactive (Mahvash disease)??? GCGR (Glucagon receptor) Mutated α-cell neoplasia Serum glucagon glucagon-cell adenomatosis { α-cell microadenoma α-cell NET/glucagonoma Presenting symptoms Endocrine micro- adenoma / PET Nonspecific Yes 13

14 Glucagon-cell hyperplasia (primary) Overwhelming increase in the -cell number Octreotide scan: increased tracer activity in pancreatic remnant Reversal of -/ -cell ratio in all the pancreatic sections examined No MEN1 or von Hippel-Lindau disease Age: yr Diffusely enlarged pancreas; diffuse labelling on Octreotide scan Al-Sarireh et al. Pancreas 2013;42:360 Glucagon-cell hyperplasia (primary) Overwhelming increase in the -cell number Reversal of -/ -cell ratio in all the pancreatic sections examined No MEN1 or von Hippel-Lindau disease Age: yr Diffusely enlarged pancreas; diffuse labelling on Octreotide scan Require continuous surveillance Pharmacologically induced? Incretins: glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1)-analogs inhibit glucagon release from -cells and induce -cell hyperplasia α-cell hyperplasia α-cell hyperplasia Reactive (Mahvash disease) Functional Non-functional Reactive Functional Non-functional GCGR Mutated Wild type Wild type GCGR Mutated Wild type Wild type Serum glucagon Serum glucagon Presenting symptoms Nonspecific Glucagonoma syndrome Nonspecific Presenting symptoms Nonspecific Glucagonoma syndrome Nonspecific PET Yes No Possible PET Yes No Possible 14

15 PP cell hyperplasia Pancreatic polypeptide (PP-) cell hyperplasia Rare: 8 cases published Enlarged islets, ragged PP cell clusters, DICs Disruption of spatial & quantitative relation between 4 islet cell types Synaptophysin PP Albazaz et al. J Clin Pathos 2006;59:1087 Islet of diffuse type Pancreatic polypeptide (PP-) cell hyperplasia Rare: 8 cases published Enlarged islets, ragged PP cell clusters, DICs Disruption of spatial & quantitative relation between 4 islet cell types DD: PP cell-rich islets in posterior part of pancreatic head Islet of diffuse type: PP-cell rich Pancreatic polypeptide (PP-) cell hyperplasia Rare: 8 cases published Enlarged islets, ragged PP cell clusters, DICs Disruption of spatial & quantitative relation between 4 islet cell types DD: PP cell-rich islets in posterior part of pancreatic head Octreotide scan: diffuse labeling of entire pancreas No clear-cut clinical syndrome; some in association with gastrinoma / hypergastrin Underlying aetiology unclear 15

16 Copyright of figures on slides 10, 12, 13, 19, 27, 38, 50-52, 56, 88, 89: Springer Verlag London. Campbell F & Verbeke CS. Pathology of the Pancreas - A practical approach (2013) 16

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