Papillary renal neoplasm with reverse polarity

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Papillary renal neoplasm with reverse polarity is a rare renal tumour and evolving entity.[1]

General

Micro

Features:[1]

  • Branching papillae with:
    • Thin fibrovascular cores.
    • Cuboidal to columnar lining cells with granular eosinophilic cytoplasm.
      • May have occasional cytoplasmic clearing.
    • Smooth luminal borders.
    • Reverse polarized nuclei (luminal nuclei; nuclei closer to lumen than basement membrane).
    • Nucleoli absent or small.

DDx:

IHC

Features:[1]

  • CK7 +ve.
  • CD10 +ve (all cases).
  • GATA3 +ve (all cases).
  • Vimentin -ve (all cases).
  • CD117 -ve.
  • AE1/AE3 +ve.
  • EMA +ve.
  • L1CAM +ve.

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Al-Obaidy KI, Eble JN, Cheng L, Williamson SR, Sakr WA, Gupta N, Idrees MT, Grignon DJ (August 2019). "Papillary Renal Neoplasm With Reverse Polarity: A Morphologic, Immunohistochemical, and Molecular Study". Am J Surg Pathol 43 (8): 1099–1111. doi:10.1097/PAS.0000000000001288. PMID 31135486.