Large polypoid perineurioma of the transverse colon without crypt serration (NPS).

ABSTRACT

Intestinal perineuriomas without crypt serration are mainly polypoid lesions characterized by a proliferation of stromal cells expressing perineurial markers. These lesions morphologically differ from those with serrated crypts because of the serrated/hyperplastic architecture in addition to the disorganization of the crypts. These tumors, despite both expression of perineurial cell markers (epithelial membrane antigen, claudin-1, GLUT-1, and collagen type IV), show well-characterized molecular differences such as BRAFV600E mutation, suggesting that they might represent two distinct variants of a single lesion. In this report, we describe a polypoid intestinal perineurioma without crypt serration of the transverse colon, showing an unusual large size compared with other reported polypoid lesions ranging from 0.2 to 0.6 cm in size.