Carcinogenesis, Teratogenesis & Mutagenesis ›› 2009, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (3): 185-188.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-616x.2009.03.007

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Cytogenetic Alterations in Lung Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma

CAO Yan1,ZOU Shuang-mei1,FENG Ling2,LIU Yu2,WEN Peng1,HAN Nai-jun2,ZHANG Kai-tai2,LIN Dong-mei1   

  1. 1. Department of Pathology, Cancer Institute&Hospital of Chinese Academy of Medicine Science, Beijing 100021;2. Department of Etiology and Carcinogenesis, Cancer Institute&Hospital of Chinese Academy of Medicine Science, Beijing 100021,China
  • Received:2009-02-18 Revised:2009-02-27 Online:2009-05-30 Published:2009-05-30

Abstract: BACKGROUND AND AIM: To study the characteristics of cytogenetic alterations of lung epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Whole DNA was isolated from two formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissues of lung epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. The DNA copy number changes were measured by array-comparative genomic hybridization(array-CGH). RESULTS: Two epithelioid hemangioendotheliomas showed many similar DNA copy number changes. Gains of small fragments(<10 Mb) were the most frequent change while deletions were infrequent.There were 150 and 556 genes involved with 77 sharing common changes. CONCLUSION: Amplifications of small fragments of DNA maybe the main cytogenetic alteration in lung epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, which may explain that epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is a low-grade malignant tumor.

Key words: epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, lung, array-CGH