Clinicopathological features of Helicobacter pylori-negative early gastric cancer

  • Wei-hua HOU ,
  • Shu-jie SONG ,
  • Zhong-yue SHI ,
  • Mu-lan JIN
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  • 1. Department of Pathology, Pingdingshan Medical District, 989 Hospital of PLA Joint Logistics Support Force, Pingdingshan 467099, Henan, China
    2. Department of Gastroenterology, Pingdingshan Medical District, 989 Hospital of PLA Joint Logistics Support Force, Pingdingshan 467099, Henan, China
    3. Department of Pathology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China

Received date: 2022-09-13

  Online published: 2023-04-12

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the clinicopathological features of Helicobacter pylori (Hp)-negative early gastric cancer. Methods: The clinicopathological data of 30 cases of Hp-negative early gastric cancer were collected retrospectively at Pingdingshan Medical District, 989 Hospital of PLA Joint Logistics Support Force, and Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, from 2009 to 2021, and the histomorphological characteristics and immunophenotype were observed, and combined with the literature to explore. Results: The median age of 30 patients was 58.5 years (range: 21-80 years), including 13 males and 17 females. The upper part of the stomach was 13 cases, the middle part of the sto-mach was 9 cases, and the lower part of the stomach was 8 cases. The median diameter of the tumor was 11 mm (range: 1-30 mm). According to the Paris classification, 9 cases were 0-Ⅱa, 7 cases were 0-Ⅱb, and 14 cases were 0-Ⅱc. Endoscopic examination showed that 18 cases of lesions were red, 12 cases of lesions were faded or white, and microvascular structures and microsurface structures were abnormal. In all the cases, collecting venules were regularly arranged in the gastric body and corner mucosa. There were 18 cases of well differentiated adenocarcinoma in the mucosa. The tumor presented glandular tubular-like and papillary structure, with dense glands and disordered arrangement; the cells were cuboidal or columnar, with increased nuclear chromatin and loss of nuclear polarity, and most of them expressed gastric mucin. Signet-ring cell carcinoma was found in 7 cases, all the cancer tissues were composed of signet-ring cells, and the cancer cells were mainly distributed in the middle layer to the surface layer of mucosa. Gastric oxyntic gland adenoma (gastric adenocarcinoma of the fundic gland type confined to mucosa) in 2 cases, gastric adenocarcinoma of the fundic gland type in 2 cases, and gastric adenocarcinoma of fundic gland mucosa type in 1 case. The tumor tissue was composed of branching tubular glands, except 1 case of mucosal surface epithelium was partially neoplastic, the other 4 cases of mucosal surface epi-thelium were all non-neoplastic; the cells were arranged in a single layer, and the nucleus was close to the basal side, and the nucleus was only slightly atypical. Pepsinogen I and H+/K+ ATPase were positive in 5 cases of gastric fundus gland type tumors, and 1 case of foveolar-type tumor cells at the surface and depth of mucosa showed MUC5AC positive. The gastric mucosa adjacent to cancer was generally normal in all cases, without atrophy, intestinal metaplasia and Hp. Conclusion: Hp-negative early gastric cancer is a heterogeneous disease group with various histological types, and tubular adenocarcinoma and signet-ring cell carcinoma are common. Tubular adenocarcinoma mostly occurs in the elderly and the upper to middle part of the stomach, while signet-ring cell carcinoma mostly occurs in young and middle-aged people and the lower part of the stomach. Gastric neoplasm of the fundic gland type is relatively rare.

Cite this article

Wei-hua HOU , Shu-jie SONG , Zhong-yue SHI , Mu-lan JIN . Clinicopathological features of Helicobacter pylori-negative early gastric cancer[J]. Journal of Peking University(Health Sciences), 2023 , 55(2) : 292 -298 . DOI: 10.19723/j.issn.1671-167X.2023.02.013

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