Clinicopathologic Significance of EGFR Mutation and HPV Infection in Sinonasal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

a.sfakia shared this article with you from Inoreader Clinicopathologic Significance of EGFR Mutation and HPV Infection in Sinonasal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Via The American Journal of Surgical Pathology - Current Issue Sinonasal squamous cell carcinoma (SNSCC) is sometimes associated with high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) infection and inverted sinonasal papilloma or oncocytic sinonasal papilloma. Frequent mutations of EGFR and KRAS are reported in inverted sinonasal papilloma–related sinonasal squamous cell carcinoma (ISP-SCC) and oncocytic sinonasal papilloma–related SNSCC, respectively. Here, we attempted to determine the prevalence and the prognostic significances of these alterations in SNSCC. We retrospectively collected 146 SNSCCs, including 14 ISP-SCCs, and comprehensively analyzed the HR-HPV infection by human papillomavirus (HPV)-RNA in sit u hybridization, EGFR gene copy number gain (CNG) by chromogenic in situ hybridization, and gene mutations in EGFR and KRAS by Sanger sequencing. HR-HPV was detected in 11 cases (7.5%), whereas all 14 ISP-SCCs were negative. EGFR mutations were present in 21 (14.7%) of 143 SNSCCs, including 13/14 (92.9%) ISP-SCCs and 8/129 (6.2%) non–ISP-SCCs (P View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.