Sinonasal biphasic seromucinous adenocarcinomas: a report of two morphologically distinct cases with multimodal omics characterization
摘要
Sinonasal adenocarcinomas (SNACs) are the second most common carcinoma category in the sinonasal tract after squamous cell carcinomas and include intestinal type adenocarcinoma, non-intestinal type adenocarcinomas and salivary-type adenocarcinomas. Improved morphologic and molecular characterization have established that most non-ITAC are phenotypically seromucinous with several provisional subtypes (BRAF V600E-mutated sinonasal ductal-like tumors, MAPK/PI3-K altered SNAC, CTNNB1-mutated sinonasal carcinoma, fusion-kinase associated SNAC e.g. ETV6::NTRK3, FGFR-rearranged biphasic SNAC). We report two biphasic/ bicellular (“oncocytic” and “basaloid”) SNACs, with multimodal omics characterization, to further underscore the biological complexity of these tumors. One oncocytic case showed HRAS and AKT1 activating mutations; the other basaloid case had a FGFR2::SORB3 fusion. Spatial transcriptomics revealed divergent intra- and inter-tumoral signatures emphasizing the transcriptomic heterogeneity within biphasic components.