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POSTERS<br />

“Lymphoplasmacyte-rich” meningioma.<br />

Descrizione di un caso e revisione della<br />

letteratura<br />

L. Riccioni, R. Donati * , M. Sintini ** , S. Cerasoli<br />

U.O. di Anatomia Patologica, Ospedale “M. Bufalini”, Cesena;<br />

* U.O. Neurochirurgia, Ospedale “M. Bufalini”, Cesena;<br />

** Dipartimento di Radiologia Medica Diagnostica ed Interventistica,<br />

Presidio Ospedaliero “Rimini Santarcangelo”<br />

Introduzione. Il meningioma ricco in linfociti e plasmacellule<br />

(c.d. “lymphoplasmacyte-rich”) (LPRM) è una variante<br />

istologica di meningioma, di grado I secondo la classificazione<br />

dell’O.M.S., in cui la componente cellulare meningoteliale<br />

neoplastica è mascherata da un infiltrato infiammatorio<br />

massivo costituito da plasmacellule, follicoli linfoidi e sparsi<br />

istiociti. Descriviamo un caso di LPRM, con revisione della<br />

letteratura pertinente.<br />

Caso clinico. Donna di 46 anni, alla quale una risonanza magnetica<br />

cervicale, eseguita in seguito al perdurare di brachialgia<br />

destra, aveva riscontrato una lesione localizzata all’altezza<br />

dei metameri vertebrali C5 e C6 che apparentemente<br />

interessava lo spazio epidurale, con parziale estensione nel<br />

canale neurale omolaterale. L’intervento neurochirurgico con<br />

laminectomia C4 parziale, C5 e C6, evidenziava uno spazio<br />

peridurale integro ed asportava in modo apparentemente radicale<br />

una lesione ad origine durale “en plaque” di cm 1,5 di<br />

asse maggiore. La paziente dopo 6 mesi dall’intervento appare<br />

libera da malattia.<br />

Risultati. All’esame istologico la neoplasia risulta costituita<br />

da una proliferazione di cellule meningoteliali, positive all’indagine<br />

immunoistochimica per antigene epiteliale di<br />

membrana (EMA) e vimentina, disposte in nidi vorticoidi e<br />

dispersi in un contesto infiammatorio costituito in prevalenza<br />

da plasmacellule mature policlonali e piccoli linfociti con<br />

immunofenotipo B e T. I reperti morfologici ed immunoistochimici<br />

hanno suggerito la diagnosi di LPRM.<br />

Conclusioni. Il LPRM è una rara variante di meningioma,<br />

del quale a tutt’oggi sono stati descritti 20 casi in letteratura,<br />

con insorgenza preferenziale tra la II e la IV decade, talora in<br />

associazione ad ipergammaglobulinemia ed anemia 1 . Tra i<br />

casi descritti, uno insorto in età pediatrica, mostrava caratteristiche<br />

di invasività locale ed atipia. Il LPRM deve essere distinto<br />

da processi linfoproliferativi con ricca componente<br />

plasmacellulare e da lesioni infiammatorie non neoplastiche,<br />

quali il granuloma plasmacellulare e la pachimeningite idiopatica<br />

infiammatoria 2 , che si possono accompagnare ad iperplasia<br />

meningoteliale reattiva e che richiedono un differente<br />

approccio terapeutico. La valutazione della clonalità dell’infiltrato<br />

linfo-plasmacellulare e l’entità e la morfologia della<br />

componente meningoteliale, suggeriscono il corretto inquadramento<br />

diagnostico della lesione.<br />

Bibliografia<br />

1 Bruno MC, Ginguene C, Santangelo M, Panagiotopoulos K, Piscopo<br />

GA, Tortora F, et al. Lymphoplasmacyte rich meningioma. A case report<br />

and review of the literature. J Neurosurg Sci 2004;48:117-24.<br />

2 Hirunwiwatkul P, Trobe JD, Blaivas M. Lymphoplasmacyte-rich meningioma<br />

mimicking idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis. J Neurol-Ophtalmol<br />

2007;27:91-4.<br />

193<br />

Microglia impairment in the central nervous<br />

system of DAP12 knock-out mice reflects a<br />

role for DAP12 in microglia survival<br />

P.L. Poliani, I.R. Turnbull * , W. Vermi, M. Colonna * , F.<br />

Facchetti<br />

Department of Pathology, University of Brescia, Italy; * Department<br />

of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University<br />

School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA<br />

Introduction. DAP12 is a signaling adaptor protein that associates<br />

with a family of receptors expressed on the surface<br />

of leukocytes including the TREM family of receptors expressed<br />

on granulocytes and macrophages. Genetic mutations<br />

of human DAP12 gene result in a rare syndrome with<br />

no obvious immune defects but characterized by bone cysts<br />

and presenile dementia, the polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia<br />

with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy (PLOSL),<br />

so called Nasu-Hakola disease. Since DAP12 is expressed in<br />

cells of myeloid origin, it is suggested that DAP12 may regulate<br />

the function of osteoclasts and microglial cells, which<br />

share a myeloid origin and are critical for bone re-modelling<br />

and brain function, respectively. Similarly to PLOSL patients,<br />

DAP12 defient mice have defects in both central nervous<br />

system (CNS) and bone, two tissues invested with resident<br />

cells of the mononuclear phagocyte lineage: osteoclasts<br />

and microglia. We have previously shown that macrophages<br />

from DAP12-/- mice undergo rapid apoptosis and in bonemarrow<br />

chimera experiments DAP12-/- cells less efficiently<br />

repopulated both bone-marrow and peripheral tissues. To better<br />

investigate this issue we studied the microglia morphology<br />

and distribution in the CNS of DAP12-/-, Trem2-/-,<br />

DAP10,12-/- and DAP10,12,FcER-/- mice.<br />

Methods. Brains and spinal cords from both knock-out and<br />

wild type mice at different age (newborns, 10-12 and 21<br />

months old) have been collected and processed for paraffin<br />

embedding. Serial sections from all the CNS of the animals<br />

have been submitted to neuropathological examination and<br />

immunostained for different microglal markers (F4/80, Iba-<br />

1, BS-I isolectin B4).<br />

Results. Neuropathological analysis of the knock out mice<br />

didn’t show major alterations with the exclusion of focal areas<br />

of hypomyelination, mild gliosis and calcifications in the<br />

oldest mice. Microglia have been found to be widespread expressed<br />

throughout all the CNS of the control mice with a<br />

prevalence in some regions (basal ganglia, cerebellum, hippocampus,<br />

fimbria-fornix). In contrast, an age dependent microglia<br />

impairment have been revealed in all the DAP12, the<br />

double DAP10/12 and the triple DAP10/12/FcER knock out<br />

mice with a dramatic loss in the older mice. Noteworthy, the<br />

Trem2 knock out mice didn’t show any microglial alterations.<br />

Interestingly the residual microglial cells showed a<br />

dystrophic morphology with loss of bundles and degenerating<br />

appearance (beading, fragmentation, nuclear condensation).<br />

Conclusions. These data suggest a new role for the DAP12<br />

protein in the survival of microglial cells. This is particularly<br />

relevant in the CNS, where replenishment of microglia is<br />

limited by capacity of bone-marrow derived monocytes to<br />

cross the blood brain barrier and defective microglial cell<br />

function might be contribute to the etiopathognesis of PLOS.

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