Fusions of ALK, ROS1, NTRK1, NTRK3, RET, MET, MERTK, FGFR1, ERBB4, LCK, BRAF, MAP3K8, MAP3K3, and PRKDC and mutation of HRAS have so far been discovered as the genetic alterations associated with the pathogenesis of Spitz neoplasms. This report presents the first case of NTRK2-rearranged Spitz/Reed nevus. The patient was a 39-year-old male with a pigmented macule rapidly growing on his shoulder. Histopathologically, the lesion was a junctional melanocytic nevus composed of large nests of spindled melanocytes with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm associated with a hyperplastic epidermis. These findings fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of a pigmented spindle cell nevus of Reed (variant of Spitz nevus). Immunohistochemistry for pan-Trk revealed diffuse cytoplasmic positivity in the tumor cells, but immunoexpression of ALK, ROS1, and BRAF V600E was not seen. A novel, in-frame, TFG-NTRK2 fusion was identified by RNA sequencing. This case report expands the list of genetic alterations in Spitz neoplasms and the spectrum of NTRK2-rearranged tumors.
Keywords: NTRK; Reed nevus NTRK2; Spitz nevus; TFG; TRKB.
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