Clinical, biological, radiological, and pathological comparison of sparsely and densely granulated somatotroph adenomas:
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Clinical, biological, radiological, and pathological comparison of sparsely and densely granulated somatotroph adenomas: a single center experience from a cohort of 131 patients with acromegaly Amy A. Swanson1 · Dana Erickson2 · Diane Mary Donegan2,3 · Sarah M. Jenkins4 · Jamie J. Van Gompel5 · John L. D. Atkinson5 · Bradley J. Erickson6 · Caterina Giannini1,7 Accepted: 13 October 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Purpose Growth hormone-producing pituitary adenomas are divided into two clinically relevant histologic subtypes, densely (DG-A) and sparsely (SG-A) granulated. Histologic subtype was evaluated in a large cohort of patients with acromegaly, separating DG-A and SG-A, and correlated with clinicopathological characteristics. Methods Patients with acromegaly undergoing surgery as initial therapy between 1995 and 2015 were identified. Histologic subtype was determined by keratin expression pattern with CAM5.2 and correlated with clinical and imaging parameters, somatostatin receptor subtype 2 (SST2) expression, post-surgical remission rate, and application of a prognostic scoring system incorporating proliferation and invasiveness. Results One hundred thirty-one patients were included. Tumors were classified as DG-A (75, 57.3%), SG-A (29, 22.1%), intermediate (I-A) (9, 6.9%), and unclassified (18, 13.7%) when CAM5.2 was negative. DG-A and I-A were combined for analysis (DG/I-A) and compared to SG-A. Age, gender, proliferation, and post-surgical remission did not differ. SG-A were larger [2 vs. 1.5 cm (median), p = 0.03], more frequently invasive [65.5% vs. 32.9%, p = 0.004], associated with higher MRI T2-weighted signal ratio [1.01 vs. 0.82 (median), p = 0.01], showed lower SST2 expression (p
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