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. 2020 Jan 15;6(4):226–237. doi: 10.1159/000504984

Table 1.

MTS associated periocular sebaceous neoplasms: demographic, clinical and pathologic characteristics of patients found in literature review by group

Diagnostic criteria Patient, n (%) Patient characteristics
Sebaceous neoplasm characteristics, n (%)
Visceral malignancy, n (%) Periocular SN timing (before visceral malignancy, concurrently, after), n (%) MMR IHC defect/no cases tested (%)
MSI positive/no cases tested, n (%) MMR mutation positive/no cases tested, n (%) Mayo-MTS, n (%)
age, years, median (range) gender (M, F) family history, n (%) histology (SC, SA, SE, KA, SCC-Seb) location (UL, LL, MC) differentiation (well, moderate, poor) number (single, multiple) MSH2 MLH1 MSH6 PMS2 >2 risk factors >2/4 risk factors
Group 1: clinical only [1, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37]a 36/60 (60) 60 (37–77) 18, 9 10/16 (63) 22/33 (67), 7/33 (21), 1/33 (3), 2/33 (6), 1/33 (3) 6/12 (50), 5/12 (42), 1/12 (8) 0/1 (0), 0/1 (0), 1/1 (100) 16/22 (73), 6/22 (27) 36/36 (100) 8/30 (27), 1/30 (3), 21/30 (70) 0/20 (0) 0/16 (0) 0/13 (0) 0/9 (0) 0/7 (0) 0 18/36 (50) 13/15 (87)

Group 2: screening ancillary only [5, 14, 31, 36, 38]b 6/60 (10) 51 (41–61) 3, 1 4/5 (80) 4/6 (67), 2/6 (33), 0/6 (0), 0/6 (0), 0/6 (0) 1/1 (100), 0/1 (0), 0/1 (0) 1/1 (100), 0/1 (0), 0/1 (0) 2/3 (67), 1/3 (33) 0/6 (0) N/A 3/4 (75)f 2/3 (67)f 2/3 (67)f 0/2 (0)f 3/3 (100) 0 2/6 (33) 2/2 (100)

IHC 6/6 (100) 51 (41–61) 3, 1 4/5 (80) 4/6 (67), 2/6 (33), 0/6 (0), 0/6 (0), 0/6 (0) 1/1 (100), 0/1 (0), 0/1 (0) 1/1 (100), 0/1 (0), 0/1 (0) 2/3 (67%), 1/3 (33) 0/6 (0) N/A 3/4 (75)f 2/3 (67)f 2/3 (67)f 0/2 (0)f 3/3 (100) 0 2/6 (33) 2/2 (100)

MSI 3/6 50) N/A 2, 1 2/3 (67) 3/3 (100), 0/3 (0), 0/3 (0), 0/3 (0), 0/3 (0) 0 1/1 (100), 0/1 (0), 0/1 (0) 0/1 (0), 1/1 (100) 0/3 (0) N/A 2/2 (100)f 1/2 (50)f 2/2 (100)f 0/1 (0)f 3/3 (100) 0 1/3 (33) 1/1 (100)

Group 3: diagnostic genetic testing onlyc 0/60 (0)

Group 4: clinical + screening ancillary [8, 14, 26, 29, 32, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43]d 14/60 (23) 59 (45–79) 7, 2 5/10 (50) 10/12 (83), 2/12 0/12 (0), (17), 0/12 (0), 0/12 (0) 5/6 (83), 1/6 (17), 0/10 (0) 2/2 (100), 0/2 (0), 0/2 (0) 9/10 (90), 1/10 (10) 14/14 (100) 2/11 (18), 0/11 (0), 9/11 (82) 11/13 (85)f 3/11 (27)f 1/5 (20)f 2/4 (50)f 4/4 (100) 0 9-11/14 (64–79)g 7–9/9 (78–100)g

IHC 14/14 (100) 59 (45–79) 7, 2 5/10 (50) 10/12 (83), 2/12 0/12 (0), (17), 0/12 (0), 0/12 (0) 5/6 (83), 1/6 (17), 0/10 (0) 2/2 (100), 0/2 (0), 0/2 (0) 9/10 (90), 1/10 (10) 14/14 (100) 2/11 (18), 0/11 (0), 9/11 (82) 11/13 (85)f 3/11 (27)f 1/5 (20)f 2/4 (50)f 4/4 (100) 0 9-11/14 (64–79)g 7–9/9 (78–100)g

MSI 4/14 (29) 54 (45–71) 4, 0 2/4 (50) 4/4 (100), 0/4 (0),2/2 (100), 0/4 (0), 0/2 (0), 0/4 (0), 0/2 (0) 0/4 (0) 1/1 (100), 0/1 (0), 0/1 (0) 2/2 (100), 0/2 (0) 4/4 (100) 1/4 (25), 0/4 (0), 3/4 (75) 2/3 (67)f 2/3 (67)f 0/1 (0)f 1/1 (100)f 4/4 (100) 0 4/4 (100) 2/2 (100)

Group 5: clinical + diagnostic genetic testing [41, 44, 45, 46]e 4/60 (7) 55 (46–65) 2, 2 2/4 (50) 3/4 (75), 1/4 (25), 0/4 (0), 0/4 (0), 0/4 (0) 3/3 (100), 0/3 (0), 0/ 3 (0) 0 2/4 (50), 2/4 (50) 4/4 (100) 0/4 (0), 0/4 (0), 4/4 (100) 0/1 (0) 1/1 (100) 0/1 (0) 0 0 4/4 4/4 (100) (100) 4/4 (100)

All 3 groups combined [5, 8, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46] 60/60 (100) 59 (37–79) 34, 15 22/40 (55) 40/60 (67), 16/60 (27), 1/60 (1.5), 2/60 (3), 1/60 (1.5) 18/27 (67), 8/27 (29), 1/27 (4) 4/5 (80), 0/5 (0), 1/5 (20) 33/44 (75), 11/44 (25) 54/60 (94) 10/45 (22), 1/45 (2), 34/45 (76) 14/38 (37) 6/31 (19) 3/22 (14) 2/13 (15) 7/14 (50) 4/4 (100) 33–35/ 60 (55–58)g 26–28/30 (87–93)g
a

Group 1: Clinical diagnostic criteria (periocular sebaceous neoplasm with MTS-associated visceral malignancy) without or with negative ancillary studies.

b

Group 2: Periocular sebaceous neoplasm with supporting screening ancillary studies (IHC or MSI) without documentation of MTS-associated visceral malignancy.

c

Group 3: Periocular sebaceous neoplasm with supporting diagnostic molecular genetic testing without documentation of MTS-associated visceral malignancy.

d

Group 4: Clinical diagnostic criteria (periocular sebaceous neoplasm with MTS-associated visceral malignancy) with supporting screening ancillary studies.

e

Group 5: Clinical diagnostic criteria (periocular sebaceous neoplasm with MTS-associated visceral malignancy) with supporting diagnostic molecular genetic testing.

f

The MMR protein defect was not specified in two tumors in Group 2 and in one tumor in Group 4 from the articles by Goldberg et al. [31], Singh et al. [5] and Lai et al. [39].

g

Analysis with and without visceral malignancies not included in the Mayo-MTS analysis.

MTS, Muir-Torre syndrome; M, male; F, female; SC, sebaceous carcinoma; SA, sebaceous adenoma; SE, sebaceous epithelioma; KA, keratoacanthoma; SCC-Seb, squamous cell carcinoma with sebaceous differentiation; UL, upper eyelid; LL, lower eyelid; MC, medial canthus; SN, sebaceous neoplasm; MMR, mismatch repair; IHC, immunohistochemistry; MSH2, mutS homolog2; MLH1, mutL homolog1; MSH6, mutS homolog6; PMS2, postmeiotic segregation increased2; MSI, microsatellite instability; Mayo-MTS, Mayo- MTS score as defined by Roberts et al. [15] (>2 risk factors – patients with 2 or more risk factors, with or without complete data on all 4 risk factors; >2 of 4 risk factors – patients with 2 or more risk factors and complete data on all 4 risk factors), N/A, not assessed.