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Case Number : Case 2486 - 15 January 2020 Posted By: Dr. Hafeez Diwan

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39 year-old female withleft lower limb mass


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Large bizarre nuclei with cherry-red nucleoli .Options are broad and include melanoma / carcinoma (e.g sebaceous or metastatic )  / sarcoma (e.g angiosarcoma or leiomyosarcoma or  eptheloid or undifferentiated  ) / Chordoma / and Lymphoma (e.g Anaplastic large cell  or diffuse large B-cell leg type).

My gut feeling is for extra- axial chordoma.

For IHC tests.

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Deep cutaneous tumor (maybe soft parts extending to skin) with atypical virocyte-cells, inflammatory background plus focal myxoid stroma (last picture). My hypothesis is Myxoinflammatory fibroblastic sarcoma.

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First image is diagnostic for me: Fibrous Histiocytoma(DF), atypical variant. 

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Eman El-Nabarawy

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1 hour ago, vincenzo said:

First image is diagnostic for me: Fibrous Histiocytoma(DF), atypical variant. 

Agree. Epidermal reaction, preserved adnexa and keloidal collagen.  

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Krishnakumar subramanian

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dermatofibroma with pleomorphism and monster cells

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Dr. Hafeez Diwan

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Myxoinflammatory fibroblastic sarcoma. CD34 was positive.

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Krishnakumar subramanian

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Dear  respected madam, do we need fusion transcript studies to confirm the diagnosis or we relay on CD 34

as there is variable positivity for  CD68, CD34, c-kit,SMA,keratin, desmin, EGFR in these tumors

please let me know

since CD 34 is positive it has excluded fibrous histiocytoma with atypical cells

 

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Krishnakumar subramanian

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also must we do S 100. Prof Fletcher discusses Cd34 and  s 100 positive tumors which have fusion genes

Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2019 Nov;58(11):739-746. doi: 10.1002/gcc.22767. Epub 2019 Jun 4.

The histologic spectrum of soft tissue spindle cell tumors with NTRK3 gene rearrangements.

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Abstract

NTRK3-rearranged tumors other than infantile fibrosarcomas (IFSs) harboring the canonical ETV6-NTRK3 fusions are uncommon, and include mainly inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors and gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Herein, we describe an additional subset of seven tumors sharing NTRK3 gene rearrangements. The cohort included five females and two males (age range 1-67 years). Tumors were located in extremities, trunk, retroperitoneum, or intra-abdominal. In all tumors, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) revealed rearrangements in NTRK3 accompanied by NTRK3 amplification in two cases. In three cases, RNA sequencing identified a fusion transcript composed of NTRK3 exon 14 fused to ETV6, TFG, and TPM4, respectively, retaining the NTRK3 kinase domain. All tumors were positive for pan-TRK by immunohistochemistry (IHC). Two cases showed low- to intermediate-grade histology composed of monomorphic spindle cells arranged in a patternless architecture, stromal bands, and perivascular rings of hyalinized collagen and coexpression of S100 and CD34. The remaining five cases were high-grade fascicular monomorphic spindle cell sarcomas, morphologically somewhat reminiscent of either malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) or fibrosarcomas (FSs). Two high-grade NTRK3 sarcomas showed aggressive clinical behavior with development of lung metastases. Identification of high-grade NTRK3-rearranged sarcomas is clinically important, since the development of selective NTRK inhibitors has opened new avenues for targeted therapy. Although IHC for pan-TRK can be applied as a screening tool, molecular studies are recommended for a conclusive diagnosis of NTRK-rearranged neoplasms.

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Nabil Mansouri2

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Dear friends and brothers. I Do agree with atypical FH since there is an epidermal reaction. May be with hyperpigmentation. Green zone , lateral entrapement of collagen. CD34 Is not enough . Can be positf and week in FH

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daniellindsay

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I would also consider Pleomorphic Hyalinising Angiectatic Tumour of soft parts here

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