Soft Tissue Flashcards
Lipoma molecular
FISH: absence of MDM2 amplification
Rearrangements in HMGA1 and HMGA2
A 25 year old male came in due to a painful right forearm mass. Mass was excised and microsections show mature adipocytes, branching vascular network and fibrin thrombi.
Dx?
Why painful?
Molecular?
Angiolipoma
Fibrin thrombi
PRKD2 mutations
A 50 year old man came in due to a shoulder and back mass. Excision was done. Microsections show mature adipocytes with bland spindle cells and ropey collagen with a variable myxoid background and mast cells.
IHC: (+) CD34
Dx?
Ddx?
Spindle cell lipoma
If predominantly spindle cells, may mimic DFSP
Pleomorphic lipoma: + floret cells
A 35 year old female came in due to right upper arm mass. Excision was done. Microsections show nests and cords of lipoblast-like and chondrocyte-like vacuolated cells on a chondromyxoid background. There is no atypia, mitoses or necrosis
Dx?
Chondroid lipoma
A 55 year old man came in due to right retroperitoneal mass adjacent to kidney. Resection done. Microsections show mature adipocytes with normal marrow elements and an adjacent adrenal parenchyma.
Dx?
Mc location?
Myelolipoma
Adrenal medulla
A 2 year old boy was brought to the clinic due to an incidental finding of a soft tissue mass. Excision was done. Microsections show immature adipocytes searated by connective tissue that has loose myxoid appearance.
Adipocytes are seen at various points of maturation including spindle cells
Dx?
Lipoblastoma
A 35 year old man came in due to right thigh mass. Excision done. Microsections show organoid arrangement of adipocytes with granular and vacuolated cytoplasm. There are also delicate branching capillaries
(+) S100
Dx?
Hibernoma
Can produce steroids
Mc form of liposarcoma
Subtypes?
Prognosis?
Molecular?
Atypical lipomatous tumor (well-differentiated liposarcoma)
Lipoma-like - MC
Sclerosing- MC in paratesticular or retroperitoneal
Inflammatory
Mixed
No metastatic potential but recurs locally and can de-differentiate
FISH: MDM2 and CDK4 amplification (can use real time PCR)
A 50 year old man came in due to a retroperitoneal mass. Resection was done. Microsections show one area with bland spindle cells and an area with pleomorphic cells, spindle cells and MNGCs with entrapped lipoblasts and a BG of delicate branching vessels
Dx?
Prognosis?
Molecular?
Dedifferentiated liposarcoma
Better prognosis than other high grade sarcomas
Metastasizes in 15-20% of cases and recurs in 40-50%
MDM2 and CDK4 amplification
A 35 year old man came in due to a thigh mass. Resection was done. Microsections show proliferation of bland monomorphic stellate and fusiform cells in a background of myxoid matrix and chicken-wire vessels. Some lipoblasts are present. In some areas, round cells are also seen.
Dx?
Behavior?
Prognosis?
Molecular
Myxoid liposarcoma
Round cells : more primitive, higher grade
Metastasizes in 10-60% of cases
FUS-DDIT3
A 57 year old man came in due to a retroperitoneal mass. Microsections show pleomorphic cells (bizarre, giant), lipoblasts, mitoses, necrosis
Dx?
Molecular?
Variant?
Pleomorphic liposarcoma
Complex karyotype (negative MDM2 and CEK4)
Epithelioid variant
A 9 year old girl came in due to neck mass. A subcutaneous mass was seen and excised. Microsections show bland stellate/spindle cells with a tissue culture pattern and extravasated RBCs in stroma.
Ihc: (+) SMA, Calponin
(-) Desmin
Dx?
Behavior?
Molecular?
Nodular fasciitis
Benign, self-limiting, rapid growth
MYH9-USP6
A 51 year old male came in due to a rapidly growing forearm mass. Microsections show a tissue culture pattern with ganglion-like cells. There are extravasated RBCs and arborizing vascular network.
IHC: (+) SMA
GANGLION CELLS —> vimentin
dx?
Behavior?
Proliferative fasciitis
If in muscle, proliferative myositis
Benign
A 60 year old bedridden man had a coccygeal mass. Excision was done: microsections show fibroblasts with degenerative changes (ganglion-like) with areas of zonal fibrinoid necrosis and prominent myxoid areas. Also seen are ectatic, thin-walled vessels.
Dx?
RF?
Ischemic fasciitis
In immobilized individuals
A 67 year old previous tennis player came in due to a subscapular mass. Microsections show thickened and fragmented eosinophilic fibers, collagenous stroma and variable fat
(+) elastin stain
Dx?
RF?
Elastofibroma
Repetitive physical movements
A 36 year old man came in due to a palpated nape mass. Microsections show paucicellular fibrocollagenous proliferation composed of patternless collagen bundles separated by clefts (artifactual separation). Also seen are entrapped nerves, adenxal structures, vessels and fat.
Ihc: (+) CD34
(-) SMA, Desmin, Beta catenin
Dx?
Nuchal-type fibroma
A 9 year old boy came in due to back mass. Hx revealed that patient also has multiple colonic polyps and previous epidermoid cysts and osteomas. The mass was excised. Microsections show paucicellular fibrocollagenous proliferation composed of patternless collagen bundles separated by clefts (artifactual separation). Also seen are entrapped nerves, adenxal structures, vessels and fat.
Ihc: (+) Beta Catenin
Dx?
Molecular?
Syndrome?
Gardner-type fibroma
(+) beta catenin vs nuchal type fibroma
APC gene in FAP
Gardner syndrome
A 55 year old man came in due to a finger mass. Microsections show proliferation of fibroblasts and myofibroblasts with abundant granular eosinophilic to amphophilic cytoplasm. Also seen are slit-like spaces at the peripheral edge lined by flat endothelial cells.
(+) focal SMA
(-) desmin
Dx?
Behavior?
Molecular?
Fibroma of tendon sheath
Benign
USP6
A 7 year old bay was brought to the clinic due to a palmar mass. Microsections show bland ovoid to spindled fibroblasts in a BG of collagenous stroma with variable cellularity. Also seen are scattered calcifications and cartilaginous foci rimmed by OLGCs
Dx?
Prognosis?
Calcifying aponeurotic fibroma
50% recurrence
A 29 year old male came in due to a plantar mass. He has a hx of colonic polyps. Microsections show infiltrative proliferation of myofibroblasts in sweeping fascicles in a BG of collagen with small vessels
IHC: (+) nuclear beta catenin, SMA
(-) CK and desmin
Dx?
Subtypes
Molecular
Fibromatosis - plantar
Palmar
Plantar
Penile (peyronie)
Deep (Desmoid tumor)
Familial/FAP: APC
Sporadic: CTNNB1
A 27 year old female came in due to a soft tissue mass. Microsections show ovoid to spindled/stellate myofibroblastic cells in a loose myxoid background. Also seen are inflammatory cells, predominantly lymphoplasmacytic.
IHC (+) ALK
DX?
molecular?
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT)
ALK rearrangments
If ALK negative, test for ROS1, PDGFRB, NTRK3, RET fusions
A 45 year old man due to cough. CT reveal
Multiple lung lesions. Biopsy was done. Microsections show uniform and hyperchromatic fibroblast-like spindle cells with elongated nuclei and variable cytoplasm in a herringbone pattern and intervening collagen fibers.
IHC (+) SMA
(-) s100, cd34, desmin, ema, keratins
Dx
Behavior
Ddx
Ihc
Fibrosarcoma (adult type)
Metastasizes most to LUNGS, bone and liver
If subcutis: must be DFSP with fibrosarcomatous transformation
If pleomorphic: must be UPS
Ihc nonspecific
A 9 month old baby boy was brought to the clinic due to a rapidly growing forearm mass. Biopsy was done which showed infiltrative monomorphic spindle cells in sheets and sweeping fascicles. Also seen are hemangipericytoma-like vessels
Most likely dx?
Molecular?
Prognosis?
Infantile/congenital fibrosarcoma
ETV6-NTRK3 t(12;15)
Favorable prognosis but recurrence is 50%
MC sarcoma in the elderly population
Prognosis
Ihc molecular
Myxofibrosarcoma
Depends on grade
Nonspecific IHC
Complex karyotypes
Microsections of a ST tumor show bland spindle cells with indistinct cytoplasm in small fascicles and whorled patterns and fibrocollagenous and myxoid component. Myxoid foci have arcades of vessels.
(+) MUC4
Dx?
Behavior?
Molecular?
Low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma (LGFS)
Malignant but indolent
FUS-CREB3L2 (MC)
A 55 year old man came in due to right lower leg mass. Microsections show small to Medium-sized epithelioid cells with variable clear to eosinophilic cytoplasm and bland ovoid nuclei in cords surrounded by dense hyalinized and sclerotic matrix with thin collagen strands
(+) MUC4
Dx?
Prognosis
Molecular
Sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma (SEF)
Poor, mets to CNS, bone, lung
EWSR1-CREB3L1 fusion
Schwannoma (neurilemmoma)
IHC
Syndromes
Variants
(+) s100, sox10, H3K27me
Epithelioid variant: loss of INI1
Retroperironeal, posternior mediastinum, GI: GFAP and CK
MC: multiple meningiomas
NF2, schwannomatosis
Ancient, cellular, plexiform, epithelioid, paeudoglandular, neuroblastoma-like, reticular
MC peripheral nerve sheath tumor
3 components and ihc
Predisposing factors to malignant transformation
Neurofibroma
Perineural-like cells: EMA
fibroblasts: CD34
Schwann cells: s100, sox10
With interspersed mast cell
Intact H3K27me
NF1 patients, plexiform and intraneural (MC preursor to MPNST)
Rare benign neoplasm arising from perineural cells
Variants
Ih
Perineurioma
Intraneural - onion skinning
Sclerosing
Reticular
Plexiform
(+) GLUT1, claudin, EMA, variable CD34
(-) sma, desmin, s100, ck
A 45 year old black woman came in due to a neck mass. Microsections show polygonal cells with granular eosinophilic cytoplasm arranged in cords, nests, and sheets in a collagenous stroma. The overlying epithelium shows pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia.
Ihc: (+) s100, sox10, cd68, TFE3
Dx?
Origin?
Behavior
Em findings?
Granular cell tumor
Schwannian
Benign but if malignant, 50% metastasize
EM: rudimentary ICJs; pleomorphic secondary lysosomes