MATERIALS AND METHODS

Patients and materials

We performed a retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained database of patients approved by the Institutional Review Board of Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, the Catholic University of Korea (KC13SISI0909). We enrolled a total of 111 patients with PAC and 138 patients with UC who were treated at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital between June 1995 and July 2009.

Cases of PAC were divided according to low (Gleason score <7) and high grade (Gleason score ≥7). Of the 111 PACs from radical prostatectomy specimens, 64 cases (57.6%) were low grade and 47 (42.3%) were high grade. Cases of UC, whether noninvasive papillary or infiltrating, were divided into low and high grade according to the World Health Organization classification. Of the 138 UCs from cystectomy or tranurethral resection of bladder specimens, 28 cases (20.3%) were noninvasive papillary low grade, and 110 (79.7%) were noninvasive papillary or infiltrating cases with high-grade morphology. The male: female ratio was 7:1. None of the patients received neoadjuvant chemotherapy, hormone, or radiation therapy.

Immunohistochemistry

We analyzed and evaluated the immunoprofile of urothelial and prostatic markers using tissue microarrays (TMAs). Needle punches (0.5-mm diameter) of paraffin-embedded tissue blocks were transferred and arrayed in the recipient block. Tissue punches yielding equivocal results were excluded from data analysis. Only interpretable positive or negative staining was accepted as a positive or negative result. Five-micrometer sections from the TMA blocks were prepared for immunohistochemical staining. All tissues were fixed in neutral buffered formalin, paraffin embedded, and processed in a standard tissue processor.

The immunohistochemical stains were performed on an automated immunostainer (LV-1 Autostainer, Lab Vision, Fremont, CA, USA) using the standard avidin-biotin peroxidase method after antigen retrieval according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The immunohistochemical stains for this study included PSA, PSMA, PAP, P501s, NKX3.1, α-methylacyl coenzyme A racemase (AMACR), CK34βE12, p63, thrombomodulin, S100P, and GATA3. Primary antibodies used in this study were as follows: PSA (polyclonal, Dako, Carpinteria, CA, USA), PSMA (monoclonal, Novocastra Lab, Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), PAP (monoclonal, Dako), P501s (monoclonal, Dako), NKX3.1 (monoclonal, Athena ES, Baltimore, MD, USA), AMACR (monoclonal, Cell Marque, Rocklin, CA, USA), CK34βE12 (monoclonal, Dako), p63 (monoclonal, Lab Vision), thrombomodulin (monoclonal, Dako), S100P (monoclonal, Dako), and GATA3 (monoclonal, prediluted, Cell Marque). Detailed information about the antibodies used in this study is included in Table 1. The staining patterns for PSA, PSMA, AMACR, and thrombomodulin were cytoplasmic. The P501s staining was in a perinuclear cytoplasmic location and had a speckled pattern. CK34βE12 showed membranous and/or cytoplasmic staining. Only nuclear stains with or without cytoplasmic staining were accepted as positive results for the p63, NKX3.1, S100P, and GATA3 stains. All immunohistochemical staining reactions were reviewed by experienced genitourinary pathologists. The patterns of all immunostaining markers in this study were diffuse and homogeneous. The immunohistochemical staining results were recorded as positive stains when ≥10% of cells showed positive reaction regardless of the intensity of the staining. SPSS ver. 16.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) was used for statistic analysis. We used chi-square tests to analyse the reactivity of all antibody panels. p-values ≤.05 were considered statistically significant.

RESULTS

The results for PSA, PSMA, PAP, P501s, NKX3.1, AMACR, CK34βE12, p63, thrombomodulin, S100P, and GATA3 were summarized (Table 2).

Prostatic markers in the PAC group

The sensitivities of prostatic markers in PAC were as follows: PSA (100%), PSMA (83.8%), PAP (91.9%), P501s (93.7%), NKX3.1 (88.3%), and AMACR (66.7%). The specificities of prostatic markers in PAC were as follows: PSA (90.6%), PSMA (99.3%), PAP (81.2%), P501s (99.3%), NKX3.1 (100%), and AMACR (91.3%). The positive predictive values (PPVs) of prostatic markers in PAC were as follows: PSA (89.5%), PSMA (98.9%), PAP (79.7%), P501s (99.1%), NKX3.1 (100%), and AMACR (86.1%). The negative predictive values (NPVs) of prostatic markers in PAC were as follows: PSA (100%), PSMA (88.4%), PAP (92.6%), P501s (95.1%), NKX3.1 (91.4%), and AMACR (77.3%) (Fig. 1).

Urothelial markers in the PAC group

Only a small number of PAC was positive for urothelial markers. CK34βE12, p63, thrombomodulin, S100P, and GATA3 immunostains were positive in 1.8%, 0%, 0%, 3.6%, and 0% of PAC, respectively. The specificities of urothelial markers in PAC were as follows: CK34βE12 (24.6%), p63 (26.1%), thrombomodulin (54.3%), S100P (77.5%), and GATA3 (15.2%). The PPVs of urothelial markers in PAC were as follows: CK34βE12 (1.9%), p63 (0%), thrombomodulin (0%), S100P (11.4%), and GATA3 (0%). The NPVs of urothelial markers in PAC were as follows: CK34βE12 (23.8%), p63 (24.5%), thrombomodulin (40.3%), S100P (50.0%), and GATA3 (15.9%) (Fig. 1).

Urothelial markers in the UC group

The sensitivities of urothelial markers in the UC group were as follows: CK34βE12 (75.4%), p63 (73.9%), thrombomodulin (45.7%), S100P (22.5%), and GATA3 (84.8%). The specificities of urothelial markers in UC were as follows: CK34βE12 (98.2%), p63 (100%), thrombomodulin (100%), S100P (96.4%), and GATA3 (100%). The PPVs of urothelial markers in UC were as follows: CK34βE12 (98.1%), p63 (100%), thrombomodulin (100%), S100P (88.6%), and GATA3 (100%). The NPVs of urothelial markers in UC were as follows: CK34βE12 (76.2%), p63 (75.5%), thrombomodulin (59.7%), S100P (50.0%), and GATA3 (84.1%) (Figs. 2, 3).

Prostatic markers in the UC group

The prostatic markers PSA, PSMA, PAP, P501s, NKX3.1, and AMACR were also positive in 9.4%, 0.7%, 18.8%, 0.7%, 0%, and 8.7% of UC, respectively. The specificities of prostatic markers in UC were as follows: PSA (0%), PSMA (16.2%), PAP (8.1%), P501s (6.3%), and NKX3.1 (11.7%), and AMACR (33.3%). The PPVs of prostatic markers in the UC group were as follows: PSA (10.5%), PSMA (1.1%), PAP (20.3%), P501s (0.9%), NKX3.1 (0%), and AMACR (13.9%). The NPVs of prostatic markers in UC were as follows: PSA (0%), PSMA (11.6%), PAP (42.9%), P501s (4.9%), NKX3.1 (8.6%), and AMACR (22.7%) (Figs. 2, 3).

Subanalysis of high-grade PAC and high-grade UC

We only included the patients with high-grade PAC (47 cases) and high-grade UC (110 cases) and analyzed the sensitivities and specificities of prostatic and urothelial markers. The results for high-grade PAC and high-grade UC were in the same range. No significant differences in the sensitivities and specificities were observed between the entire tumor groups and the high-grade groups (Table 3).

DISCUSSION

Although the pathologic identification of PAC and UC using hematoxylin and eosin staining is not difficult in most cases, some cases may present a challenging diagnosis because the histologic appearance of poorly differentiated PAC can be very similar to that of high-grade UC [3].

High-grade PAC may have enlarged nuclei and prominent nucleoli similar to UC, but little variability in the nuclear size or shape is generally observed in PAC compared with UC [2,3]. Additionally, even in high-grade PAC, there are few mitosis and pleomorphism compared with high-grade UC [3]. Although high-grade UC commonly exhibits more pronounced pleomorphism compared with PAC [2,3], there have been cases of high-grade UC that were indistinguishable from high-grade PAC in terms of pleomorphism and cytologic atypia [3]. UC tends to grow in nests and often shows conspicuous squamous differentiation and glassy eosinophilic cytoplasm. In contrast, the cytoplasm of PAC is generally pale and foamy [3]. Additionally, the findings of focal cribriform glandular differentiation or infiltrating cords of cells are more typical features of PAC than UC [2,3]. As the findings with routine hematoxylin and eosin staining may overlap, immunohistochemical staining may help solve the diagnostic dilemma [3]. Particularly, in poorly differentiated carcinomas involving both the prostate and bladder without any glandular differentiation, the pathology of the case should be evaluated immunohistochemically (Table 4).

PSA, a serine protease member of the human glandular kallikrein family, is almost exclusively synthesized in the prostate ductal and acinar epithelium, making it a highly specific marker for the prostatic lineage [2]. However, PSA has also been reported to be present in some non-prostatic tissue, such as the urethral, periurethral, and perianal glands [4]. Extraprostatic neoplasms that frequently express PSA include urethral and periurethral adenocarcinoma, cloacogenic carcinoma, salivary gland pleomorphic adenoma, salivary duct carcinoma, and rare breast carcinomas [8]. PSA has been shown to be a highly specific marker, but some authors suggest that there is an inverse correlation between the Gleason score and PSA staining intensity [9]. Previous studies have reported that high-grade PAC that was completely negative for PSA stain ranged from 3% to 27% [3,5,6,9,10]. However, in our study, no PAC specimens were devoid of PSA expression, including high-grade PAC, with 100% sensitivity. Therefore, PSA expression is very useful and valuable for clarifying the prostatic origin of tumors.

PSMA, a 750 amino acid type II membrane glycoprotein, is expressed by benign and malignant prostatic epithelial cells, with stronger staining observed in the latter [11]. Although PSMA is a very specific marker of prostatic lineage, it is also expressed in non-prostatic tissues, such as the duodenal mucosa, neuroendocrine cells of colonic crypts, endothelial cells of some neoplasms, and proximal renal tubules [12,13]. Some studies have reported an inverse correlation between PSMA staining and the Gleason score [11,12]. The sensitivities of PSMA for PAC ranged from 86.8% to 100% in various studies [3,12-15]. In our study, the sensitivity of PSMA in PAC (83.8%) was lower than PSA, but its specificity (99.3%) was higher than PSA. PSMA has been reported to stain 11% of urinary bladder adenocarcinomas, a fact worth noting [16]. We detected scattered patterns of positive PSMA staining in only one from 138 cases (0.7%) of UC.

PAP is an early prostatic marker used to confirm the diagnosis of PAC5 [15], and remains a specific marker for prostate tissue. Mhawech et al. [5] reported that 87% of high-grade PAC showed immunopositivity for PAP and observed an inverse correlation between the Gleason score and PAP staining. In this study, PAP was stained in 91.9% of PAC and showed a relative lack of specificity compared with PSMA (81.2% vs 99.3%), with a more variable staining pattern. Monoclonal antibodies to PAP have been reported to have lower sensitivities than their polyclonal counterparts but be more specific [2]. PAP staining has been known to be consistently negative in UC [5,10,17], but a recent study reported immunopositivity in 11.1% of UC [6]. Unexpectedly, we also detected PAP staining with a scattered pattern in 26 of 138 cases of UC (18.8%).

P501s, a 553-amino acid protein located in the Golgi complex, is a newer prostate-specific protein identified by a combination of high-throughput microarray screening with cDNA subtraction [18]. P501s is expressed by benign and malignant prostatic epithelium and has not been detected in the urothelium or non-prostatic tissue [19]. P501s was reported to be expressed in 94% of a total of observed 113 PAC cases, independent of the metastatic status and Gleason score [19]. Chuang et al. [3] reported that P501s was expressed in all 38 high-grade PAC cases. In the current study, P501s showed high sensitivity (93.7%) and specificity (99.3%) for PAC, and only one of 138 cases of UC (0.7%) was positive for that marker. To date, P501s expression has not been shown in tumors except PAC, making it of great utility in differentiating poorly differentiated PAC from high-grade UC [3,16].

NKX3.1, a prostate specific androgen regulated homeobox gene [20], is expressed in the prostatic epithelium, rare ureteral and urothelial cells, normal testis, lobular carcinoma of the breast, and bronchial mucous glands [21,22]. Gelmann et al. [22] reported that all 40 observed cases of UC were negative for NKX3.1. In the current study, none of the 138 cases of UC was positive for NKX3.1. The sensitivities of NKX3.1 for PAC reported in previous studies were 92.1%, 89.5%, 87.4%, and 69.2% [3,21-23]. This study also showed a comparable result, with 88.3% sensitivity of NKX3.1 for PAC.

The AMACR, localized predominantly in peroxisomal structures, plays a critical role in peroxisomal beta oxidation of branched chain fatty acid. Jiang et al. [24] demonstrated that both PAC and high-grade prostate intraepithelial neoplasia (HG-PIN) consistently revealed a significantly higher expression than normal epithelium. However, AMACR expression has repeatedly been demonstrated in HG-PIN and some benign mimickers of PAC. Moreover, Kunju et al. [6] reported that AMACR is expressed in 36% of UC cases. In our study, AMACR was expressed in 66.7% of 111 cases of PAC and 8.7% of 138 cases of UC. AMACR is less sensitive than other prostate markers for PAC and is of limited utility in resolving the difficult problems involving both the prostate and urinary bladder.

Although PSA, PSMA, PAP, P501s, and NKX3.1 are sensitive and specific markers for evaluating the prostatic origin of tumors, lack of staining was also detected for most markers, except PSA, in this study, at 16.2% for PSMA, 8.1% for PAP, 6.3% for P501s, and 11.7% for NKX3.1 of 111 PAC cases. Therefore, the lack of immunoreactivity of prostate markers in a poorly differentiated carcinoma does not exclude the possibility of a prostatic origin. In addition, false-positives were detected in UC in five of six established prostate markers in this study, ranging from 0.7% to 18.8%, suggesting that the immunohistochemical panel is necessary and useful to discriminate poorly differentiated high-grade carcinomas involving both the prostate and bladder.

Many immunohistochemical stains have been investigated for UC, but no single marker has been found to be unequivocally diagnostic of urothelial origin. Thus, investigators have recommended a panel of markers to demonstrate the urothelial origin of tumor, such as CK34βE12, p63, thrombomodulin, S100P, and GATA3.

The monoclonal antibody CK34βE12, which reactive specifically against high-molecular-weight cytokeratins (CKs), including CK1, CK5, CK14, and CK20 [2], is an extremely sensitive marker of urothelial lineage. It is reported to match the sensitivity of p63 and surpass that of uroplakin III and thrombomodulin [3,25]. Compared with previous studies showing sensitivities of 97.2%, 91.4%, and 65.2% for CK34βE12 in UC [3,6,10], our study found 75.4% sensitivity in UC. It is worth noting that CK34βE12 can label squamous epithelia, including areas of squamous differentiation in recurrent PAC after therapy. Thus, Parwani et al. [26] argued that immunopositivity for CK34βE12 restricted to areas of squamous differentiation does not exclude the possibility of PAC.

p63, a homologue of the p53 tumor suppressor gene, encodes at least six different proteins with a wide range of biologic functions, including a role in urothelial differentiation [2]. Immunostaining for p63 is typically present in more than 90% of the nuclei of the normal urothelia [2]. Many UCs retain a pattern of p63 expression, but p63 expression may be partially lost in high-grade UC [3,27]. Although p63 sensitivity for UC in our study (73.9%) was lower than that of previous studies (82.9%–91.7%) [3,6], its specificity was 100% for UC.

Thrombomodulin, also designated CD141, is an endothelial cell associated cofactor for the thrombin-mediated activator of protein C [2]. Previous studies have shown that thrombomodulin was immunostained in 48.8%–68.6% of UC [3,5], but our study found a slightly lower expression at 45.7%.

S100P is highly expressed in the urothelial epithelium [28]. Higgins et al. [28] reported that the polyclonal antibody against S100P labeled 85% of UC and 3% of PAC, whereas the monoclonal antibody against S100P detected 77% of UC and 2% of PAC. Chuang et al. [3] also reported that the monoclonal S100P detected 51.4% of UC and 7.9% of PAC. In our study with a monoclonal antibody against S100P, 22.5% of UC and 3.6% of PAC were stained, which was less than in previous studies [3,28].

Although CK34βE12 and p63 have been reported to intermittently label PAC in a non-basal cell distribution, thrombomodulin has not been reported to show cross reactivity [5,6,10]. We found that CK34βE12 and p63 immunostains were superior to thrombomodulin or S100P as differential markers of urothelial origin. Only a few scattered cells of PAC were labeled with CK34βE12 (1.8%) and S100P (3.6%), but no PAC was immunopositive for thrombomodulin or p63 in our study.

GATA3 is a member of a zinc finger transcription factor family that plays an important role in promoting and directing cell proliferation, differentiation, and development [2]. GATA3 is a very sensitive marker for UC, and it is also highly specific in excluding high-grade PAC [29]. Chang et al. [29] reported that none of the 38 high-grade PACs was positive for GATA3. In this study, the sensitivity of GATA3 was 0% in PAC and 84.8% in UC. Uroplakin III is considered the most specific marker for urothelial differentiation, but it has not received popularity due to the lack of uniform expression in UCs [29]. Our study has some limitations because we did not include studies of Uroplakin III.

In conclusion, prostatic markers, including PSA, PSMA, PAP, and P501s, are very useful for distinguishing PAC from UC. Urothelial markers are less sensitive in identifying UC but rarely stain PAC. In the current study, we found that PSA is most sensitive prostatic marker for distinguishing PAC from UC cases with high sensitivity and negative predictive value. In addition, NKX3.1 is the most specific prostatic marker for distinguishing PAC from UC cases with high specificity and positive predictive value. p63 and thrombomodulin are the most specific urothelial markers for distinguishing UC from PAC cases with high specificities. GATA3 was positive in 117 of 137 cases of UCs and none of the 111 PACs was positive for GATA3. We found that the best combination of immunohistochemical markers for distinguishing PAC from UC is panels consisting of PSA, NKX3.1, p63, thrombomodulin, and GATA3. The optimal combination of immunohistochemical panels of prostatic and urothelial markers could improve the ability to establish the pathologic diagnosis of poorly differentiated high-grade carcinomas involving either the prostate or urinary bladder.

Notes

Conflicts of Interest

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Fig. 1.

Representative panel of immunohistochemical markers in most cases of prostate adenocarcinoma. Positive immunoreactivity for prostate-specific antigen (A), prostate-specific membrane antigen (B), prostate acid phosphatase (C), P501s (D), NKX3.1 (E), and α-methylacyl coenzyme A racemase (F). Negative immunoreactivity for CK34βE12 (G), p63 (H), thrombomodulin (I), S100P (J), and GATA binding protein 3 (K).

Fig. 2.

Representative panel of immunohistochemical markers in most cases of urothelial adenocarcinoma. Negative immunoreactivity for prostate-specific antigen (A), prostate-specific membrane antigen (B), prostate acid phosphatase (C), P501s (D), NKX3.1 (E), and α-methylacyl coenzyme A racemase (F). Positive immunoreactivity for CK34βE12 (G), p63 (H), thrombomodulin (I), S100P (J), and GATA binding protein 3 (K).

Fig. 3.

(A) Prostate-specific antigen shows cytoplasmic staining of urothelial carcinoma. (B) Prostate-specific membrane antigen shows focal cytoplasmic staining of urothelial carcinoma. (C) Prostate acid phosphatase shows positivity in urothelial carcinoma. (D) P501S shows focal perinuclear cytoplasmic staining of urothelial carcinoma. (E) α-Methylacyl coenzyme A racemase shows weakly positive staining of urothelial carcinoma. (F) S100P shows weak nuclear staining of prostate adenocarcinoma.

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