| Literature DB >> 34763921 |
Michael E Kallen1, Jason L Hornick2.
Abstract
Round cell sarcomas include a diverse group of bone and soft tissue tumors, which comprise well-defined entities as well as several nascent categories presented in the 2020 World Health Organization classification. The morphologic overlap yet disparate nosology, prognostic implications, and management strategies places a high value on ancillary testing, including a strategic immunohistochemical approach and directed confirmation by cytogenetic and molecular genetic methods. We review the diagnostic categories that have emerged from the former wastebasket "undifferentiated round cell sarcoma" ("Ewing-like" sarcomas), with an emphasis on algorithmic exclusion of nonsarcomatous entities, diagnostic stratification of well-defined entities (Ewing sarcoma, rhabdomyosarcomas, poorly differentiated synovial sarcoma), and a discussion of the new categories with novel genetic alterations (CIC-rearranged sarcomas, sarcomas with BCOR genetic alterations, and round cell sarcomas with EWSR1-non-ETS fusions).Entities:
Keywords: BCOR; CIC-rearranged sarcoma; Ewing sarcoma; NFATC2; PATZ1; Undifferentiated round cell sarcoma
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Year: 2021 PMID: 34763921 DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2021.10.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Semin Diagn Pathol ISSN: 0740-2570 Impact factor: 3.464