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Aberrant expression of thyroid transcription factor-1 in meningeal solitary fibrous tumor/hemangiopericytoma

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Meningeal solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) and hemangiopericytoma (HPC) were categorized as the same entity in the World Health Organization (WHO) 2016 classification of tumors of the central nervous system (CNS). Although NAB2-STAT6 fusion protein can be used to distinguish most of SFT/HPC from the other sarcomas, additional biomarkers were requested to separate meningeal SFT/HPC from meningioma and the molecular pathological difference between meningeal SFT/HPC and extra-CNS SFT/HPC still remains unclear. In this study, we evaluated the expression of TTF-1 in 67 meningeal SFT/HPC, 62 extra-CNS SFT/HPC and 201 meningiomas samples with immunohistochemistry (IHC) assays. The results showed that TTF-1 was detected in 23 of 67 (34.3%) meningeal SFT/HPC, 3 retroperitoneum SFT/HPC and none of meningiomas. Meanwhile, the copy number variation and mRNA expression of TTF-1 were measured by real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) in meningeal SFT/HPC. These results demonstrated that TTF-1 protein expression level was significantly correlated with its transcription level, but independently related to the gene copy number variant. In conclusion, our study suggested that a large proportion of meningeal SFT/HPC was positive to TTF-1, while very few extra CNS SFT/HPC cases and no meningiomas were stained. So TTF-1 has value as an auxiliary diagnostic marker for meningeal SFT/HPC.

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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WK9110000042); the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (1908085MH281); and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81702954).

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  1. Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230036, Anhui, China

    Haibo Wu, Jun Du, Heng Li, Yujie Li, Wanqiu Zhang & Wei Wang

  2. Intelligent Pathology Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230036, Anhui, China

    Haibo Wu, Jun Du, Heng Li, Yujie Li, Wanqiu Zhang, Wenchao Zhou & Wei Wang

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Wu, H., Du, J., Li, H. et al. Aberrant expression of thyroid transcription factor-1 in meningeal solitary fibrous tumor/hemangiopericytoma. Brain Tumor Pathol 38, 122–131 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10014-021-00395-1

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