Penile squamous neoplasia
Penile squamous neoplasia
Updated: 01/03/2023
© Jun Wang, MD, PhD
Penile intraepithelial neoplasia
(PeIN)
- Rare, precancerous lesion
- HPV associated
- Usually whitish discoloration with erythematous changes and ulceration
- Four variants
- Differentiated: Most common, more mature, atypia at bottom layers
- Basaloid: Monotonous small to intermediate sized cells
- Warty: Papillary growth with koilocytes
- Warty basaloid: Papillary growth with basaloid cells in middle and lower third of epithelium
- Common in HIV+ men with anal dysplasia
- Treatment: Laser, surgery
Bowen’s disease
- Squamous cell carcinoma in situ
- Usually in elderly uncircumcised men
- Erythematous, scaly patch or plaque on the shaft of the penis
- Full thickness epithelial dysplasia with mitosis in upper third layer
- Overexpression of p16
Squamous cell carcinoma
- Most common penile neoplasms
- Risk factors: Phimosis, long foreskin, paraphimosis, HPV infection, lichen sclerosis, injury, smoking, psoriasis patients treated with UVB radiation, etc
- Similar pathogenesis as cervical HPV associated carcinoma
- Firm mass, may have ulceration
- Cords, nests of atypical cells with squamous differentiation (intercellular bridge, squamous pearl,etc) invading stroma
- Treatment: excision, with or without inguinal lymph node dissection
Verrucous carcinoma
- Extremely well-differentiated variant of squamous cell carcinoma
- Most common at glans, usually HPV negative
- Very well-differentiated with prominent intercellular bridges, minimal atypia
- Broad base and pushing borders
- Usually do NOT overexpress p16
- Treatment: Surgery
- Usually excellent prognosis, may recur
Bowenoid papulosis
- Term no longer used by pathologists, replaced with PeIN
- More common in sexually active young males
- Associated with HPV 16 or 18
- Usually regress spontaneously
- May progress to cancer
- Multiple soft papules, most commonly in the skin of the shaft
- Histologically similar to Bowen’s disease, but less severe atypia
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