Bissonnette Caroline, Shilo Konstantin, Liebner David, Rogers Alan, Pollock Raphael E, Iwenofu O Hans
Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Radiology, The Ohio State University College of Dentistry, Columbus, OH, USA.
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
Int J Surg Pathol. 2021 Feb;29(1):109-116. doi: 10.1177/1066896920929081. Epub 2020 Jun 7.
The molecular findings in Ewing sarcoma have greatly expanded in recent years. Furthermore, this is particularly true for the subset termed "Ewing-like" undifferentiated round cell sarcomas in which new translocations have been reported since the fourth edition of the . Amid this expanding genetic landscape, we report a case of extraskeletal undifferentiated round cell "Ewing-like" sarcoma in a 27-year-old female. The patient presented with a large lung mass accompanied on staging imaging by deposits suspicious for metastatic disease in the humerus, calvarium, and lymph nodes of the neck and chest. Biopsy of the lung mass revealed a densely packed monotonous proliferation of round, uniform neoplastic cells with scant cytoplasm. By immunohistochemistry, the tumor cells were diffusely positive for CD99, synaptophysin, TLE1, EMA, and MUC4 and negative for FLI1, PAX7, AE1/3, S100, SOX10, WT1, p63, desmin, and HMB45. Fluorescence in situ hybridization demonstrated rearrangement of the gene. Next-generation sequencing based assay revealed an fusion. Taken together, the histomorphologic and molecular findings were considered consistent with an undifferentiated round cell sarcoma with an fusion. Although described in entities such as sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma, low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma, and small cell osteosarcoma, this has not been previously described in undifferentiated round cell ("Ewing-like") sarcoma. This finding adds to the growing list of undifferentiated round cell sarcomas with Ewing-like morphologic phenotype-associated fusion genes and may contribute to further defining and characterizing the different subset of tumors in the Ewing family of tumors.
近年来,尤因肉瘤的分子学研究成果有了极大扩展。此外,对于被称为“尤因样”未分化圆形细胞肉瘤的亚型来说尤其如此,自第四版[相关文献]以来已有新的易位报道。在这一不断扩展的基因格局中,我们报告了一例27岁女性的骨外未分化圆形细胞“尤因样”肉瘤病例。患者表现为肺部巨大肿块,分期影像学检查显示肱骨、颅骨以及颈部和胸部淋巴结有可疑转移灶。肺部肿块活检显示圆形、形态一致的肿瘤细胞密集堆积、呈单一性增殖,胞质稀少。免疫组化结果显示,肿瘤细胞CD99、突触素、TLE1、EMA和MUC4弥漫性阳性,而FLI1、PAX7、AE1/3、S100、SOX10、WT1、p63、结蛋白和HMB45阴性。荧光原位杂交显示[某]基因重排。基于二代测序的检测显示一种[具体融合情况]融合。综合来看,组织形态学和分子学结果被认为与具有[该]融合的未分化圆形细胞肉瘤相符。虽然在硬化性上皮样纤维肉瘤、低级别纤维黏液样肉瘤和小细胞骨肉瘤等实体瘤中已有描述,但此前在未分化圆形细胞(“尤因样”)肉瘤中尚未见报道。这一发现增加了具有尤因样形态学表型相关融合基因的未分化圆形细胞肉瘤的种类,可能有助于进一步明确和界定尤因肿瘤家族中不同肿瘤亚型。