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'''Soft tissue lesions''' strike fear in many pathologists as they are uncommon and may be difficult to diagnose.  
'''Soft tissue lesions''' strike fear in many pathologists as they are uncommon and may be difficult to diagnose. Malignant soft tissue lesions, i.e. [[cancer|cancerous]] soft tissue lesions, are usually '''sarcomas'''. Sarcomas are malignancies derived from mesenchymal tissue. 


=Introduction=
=Introduction=
==WHO classification of soft tissue lesions/tumours==
==WHO classification of soft tissue lesions/tumours==
===Morphologic grouping<ref name=Ref_WMSP601-3>{{Ref WMSP|601-3}}</ref>===
===Morphologic grouping===
#Adipocytic tumours.
These include:<ref name=Ref_WMSP601-3>{{Ref WMSP|601-3}}</ref>
#Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours.
#[[Adipocytic tumours]].
#"Fibrohistiocytic" tumours.
#[[Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours]].
#Smooth muscle tumours.
#[[Fibrohistiocytic tumours|"Fibrohistiocytic" tumours]].
#Skeletal muscle tumours.
#[[Smooth muscle tumours|Smooth muscle tumours]].
#Vascular tumours.
#[[Soft tissue lesions#Skeletal muscle tumours|Skeletal muscle tumours]].
#Perivascular (pericytic) tumours.
#[[Vascular tumours]].
#Chondro-osseous tumours.
#[[Soft_tissue_lesions#Perivascular_tumours|Perivascular (pericytic) tumours]].
#Tumours of uncertain differentiation.
#[[Chondro-osseous tumours]].
#[[Soft tissue lesions#Tumours of uncertain differentiation|Tumours of uncertain differentiation]].


===Biologic potential grouping<ref>{{Ref WMSP|598-604}}</ref>===
===Biologic potential grouping===
These include:<ref>{{Ref WMSP|598-604}}</ref>
#Benign.
#Benign.
#Intermediate (locally aggressive).
#Intermediate (locally aggressive).
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*Once upon a time almost everything was called ''malignant fibrous histiocytoma''; thus, it is listed as a common entity in some publications.
*Once upon a time almost everything was called ''malignant fibrous histiocytoma''; thus, it is listed as a common entity in some publications.


===Most common:<ref name=pmid17976362>{{cite journal |author=Skubitz KM, D'Adamo DR |title=Sarcoma |journal=Mayo Clin. Proc. |volume=82 |issue=11 |pages=1409–32 |year=2007 |month=November |pmid=17976362 |doi= |url= http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/82/11/1409.long}}</ref>===
Most common:<ref name=pmid17976362>{{cite journal |author=Skubitz KM, D'Adamo DR |title=Sarcoma |journal=Mayo Clin. Proc. |volume=82 |issue=11 |pages=1409–32 |year=2007 |month=November |pmid=17976362 |doi= |url= http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/82/11/1409.long}}</ref>
*Liposarcoma.
*Liposarcoma.
*Leiomyosarcoma.
*Leiomyosarcoma.
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*Many tumours in soft tissue pathology are diagnosed inconjunction with the finding of [[chromosomal translocations]].
*Many tumours in soft tissue pathology are diagnosed inconjunction with the finding of [[chromosomal translocations]].


==Histologic patterns==
==Morphohistologic patterns==
{{Main|Morphologic patterns}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"
! Name
! Name
! Description
! Description
! DDx
! DDx
! Image
! Image(s)
! Other
|-
|-
| Storiform, [[AKA]] patternless pattern<ref name=pmid9704618>{{cite journal |author=Mangano WE, Cagle PT, Churg A, Vollmer RT, Roggli VL |title=The diagnosis of desmoplastic malignant mesothelioma and its distinction from fibrous pleurisy: a histologic and immunohistochemical analysis of 31 cases including p53 immunostaining |journal=Am. J. Clin. Pathol. |volume=110 |issue=2 |pages=191–9 |year=1998 |month=August |pmid=9704618 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
| Storiform, [[AKA]] patternless pattern<ref name=pmid9704618>{{cite journal |author=Mangano WE, Cagle PT, Churg A, Vollmer RT, Roggli VL |title=The diagnosis of desmoplastic malignant mesothelioma and its distinction from fibrous pleurisy: a histologic and immunohistochemical analysis of 31 cases including p53 immunostaining |journal=Am. J. Clin. Pathol. |volume=110 |issue=2 |pages=191–9 |year=1998 |month=August |pmid=9704618 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
| whorled, cartwheel-like arrangement
| whorled, cartwheel-like arrangement
| [[pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma]], [[solitary fibrous tumour]], [[dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans]]
| [[pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma]], [[solitary fibrous tumour]], [[dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans]], [[dermatofibroma]]<ref name=pmid224569>{{cite journal |author=Meister P, Höhne N, Konrad E, Eder M |title=Fibrous histiocytoma: an analysis of the storiform pattern |journal=Virchows Arch A Pathol Anat Histol |volume=383 |issue=1 |pages=31–41 |year=1979 |month=July |pmid=224569 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
| image ?
| [[Image:Storiform_pattern_-_intermed_mag.jpg |thumb|center|150px| Patternless pattern. (WC)]]
| other ?
|-
|-
| Herring bone
| Herring bone
| like herring bone (technique) for climbing a hill in cross country skiing; books on a shelf, where they have partially fallen over -- on the one shelf to the left and the one below to the right
| like herring bone (technique) for climbing a hill in cross country skiing; books on a shelf, where they have partially fallen over -- on the one shelf to the left and the one below to the right
| [[fibrosarcoma]], [[synovial sarcoma]], [[MPNST]]
| [[fibrosarcoma]], [[synovial sarcoma]], [[MPNST]]
| image ?
| [[Image:Malignant_peripheral_nerve_sheath_tumour_-_intermed_mag.jpg |thumb|center|150px |Herring bone. (WC)]]
| other ?
|-
|-
| Fasicular
| Fascicular
| the long axis of the (spindle) cells are perpendicular to one another in adjacent bundles of cells
| the long axis of the (spindle) cells are perpendicular to one another in adjacent bundles of cells
| [[leiomyoma]]
| [[leiomyoma]], [[leiomyosarcoma]]
| image ?
| [[Image:Cutaneous_leiomyosarcoma_-_high_mag.jpg |thumb|center|150px| Fascicular pattern. (WC)]]
| other ?
|-
|-
| Biphasic
| Biphasic
| nests of cells and stroma
| nests of cells and stroma
| [[synovial sarcoma]], [[DSRCT]], [[alveolar RMS]]
| [[synovial sarcoma]], [[DSRCT]], [[alveolar RMS]]
| image ?
| [[Image:Desmoplastic_small_round_cell_tumour_-_high_mag.jpg|thumb|center|150px| DSRCT. (WC)]]
| other ?
|- <!--
|- <!--
| name ?
| name ?
| description ?
| description ?
| DDx ?
| DDx ?
| image ?
| image ? -->
| other ? -->
|}
|}
Notes:
*Memory device: herring bone DDx ''MSF'' = MPNST, Synovial sarcoma, Fibrosarcoma.


==Grading==
==Grading==
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===French system===
===French system===
Overview:<ref name=pmid8996162/><ref name=uscap_stp>URL: [http://www.cap.org/apps/docs/committees/cancer/cancer_protocols/2011/SoftTissue_11protocol.pdf http://www.cap.org/apps/docs/committees/cancer/cancer_protocols/2011/SoftTissue_11protocol.pdf]. Accessed on: 12 April 2011.</ref>
*Formally known as the grading system from the ''French Federation of Cancer Centres Sarcoma Group'' (FNCLCC).
 
====Overview====
Components - overview:<ref name=pmid8996162/><ref name=uscap_stp>URL: [http://www.cap.org/apps/docs/committees/cancer/cancer_protocols/2011/SoftTissue_11protocol.pdf http://www.cap.org/apps/docs/committees/cancer/cancer_protocols/2011/SoftTissue_11protocol.pdf]. Accessed on: 12 April 2011.</ref>
#Differentiation (score 1-3).
#Differentiation (score 1-3).
#*De facto, this is mostly the ''histologic type''.
#*De facto, this is mostly the ''histologic type''.
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*Well-differentiated liposarcoma = 1.
*Well-differentiated liposarcoma = 1.
*Myxoid liposarcoma = 2.
*Myxoid liposarcoma = 2.
*Conventional liposarcoma = 2.
*Conventional [[liposarcoma]] = 2.
*Fibrosarcoma = 2.
*Fibrosarcoma = 2.
*Myxofibrosarcoma =2.
*[[Myxofibrosarcoma]] =2.


A group of tumours is not graded:<ref name=uscap_stp/>
A group of tumours is not graded:<ref name=uscap_stp/>
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*[[Alveolar soft part sarcoma]].
*[[Alveolar soft part sarcoma]].
*[[Clear cell sarcoma]].
*[[Clear cell sarcoma]].
*Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma.
*[[Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma]].


=====Mitotic rate=====
=====Mitotic rate=====
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*Cellularity (cells/matrix) > 50%.
*Cellularity (cells/matrix) > 50%.
*Necrosis >15% - microscopic (without targeting necrosis grossly) ''or'' grossly.
*Necrosis >15% - microscopic (without targeting necrosis grossly) ''or'' grossly.
==Stage==
{{Main|Cancer staging systems}}
===Lymph node metastases in sarcomas===
{{Main|Lymph node metastasis}}
*[[Lymph node]] (LN) spread is uncommon in sarcomas; [[lymph node metastases]] are seen in <3% of cases.<ref name=pmid8424704>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Fong | first1 = Y. | last2 = Coit | first2 = DG. | last3 = Woodruff | first3 = JM. | last4 = Brennan | first4 = MF. | title = Lymph node metastasis from soft tissue sarcoma in adults. Analysis of data from a prospective database of 1772 sarcoma patients. | journal = Ann Surg | volume = 217 | issue = 1 | pages = 72-7 | month = Jan | year = 1993 | doi =  | PMID = 8424704 | PMC = 1242736}}</ref>
**Many sarcomas are reported in LNs.
***According to the [[CAP checklist]] for soft tissue<ref>URL: [http://www.cap.org/apps/docs/committees/cancer/cancer_protocols/2011/SoftTissue_11protocol.pdf http://www.cap.org/apps/docs/committees/cancer/cancer_protocols/2011/SoftTissue_11protocol.pdf]. Accessed on: 28 March 2012.</ref> the most common are: [[epithelioid sarcoma]] and [[clear cell sarcoma]].
***According to Fong ''et al.''<ref name=pmid8424704/> the most commonly is: angiosarcoma.
Sarcomas more likely to be found in the lymph nodes - mnemonic ''RACE For MS'':<ref>URL: [http://www.aippg.net/forum/f21/surgery-mnemonics-79897/ http://www.aippg.net/forum/f21/surgery-mnemonics-79897/]. Accessed on: 23 March 2012.</ref>
*[[rhabdomyosarcoma|'''R'''habdomyosarcoma]]
*[[Angiosarcoma|'''A'''ngiosarcoma]].
*[[clear cell sarcoma|'''C'''lear cell sarcoma]].
*[[epithelioid sarcoma|'''E'''pitheliod sarcoma]].
*[[fibrosarcoma|'''F'''ibrosarcoma]].
*[[pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma|'''M'''alignant fibrous histiocytoma (pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma)]].
*[[synovial sarcoma|'''S'''ynovial cell sarcoma]].
==DDx by history/site==
===Retroperiteum===
#[[Liposarcoma]].
#[[Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma]].
#[[Leiomyosarcoma]].
#[[MPNST]].
Note:
[[Synovial sarcoma]] and [[fibrosarcoma]] are very rare in the retroperitoneum.
===Young person - extremity sarcoma===
#[[Epithelioid sarcoma]].
#[[Synovial sarcoma]].
==Gross characteristics==
*Usually non-specific.
*Most sarcomas have a pushing border.
**If there is an infiltrative border think: (1) fibromatosis, (2) carcinoma.


=Adipocytic tumours=
=Adipocytic tumours=
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=Smooth muscle tumours=
=Smooth muscle tumours=
{{Main|Smooth muscle tumours}}
IHC markers: desmin, SMA, H-caldemsin (most specific).


==Leiomyosarcoma==
==Leiomyosarcoma==
{{Main|Leiomyosarcoma}}
{{Main|Leiomyosarcoma}}


===Microscopy===
===Microscopic===
Features:
Features (summary):
*Nuclear atypia.
*Fasicular cellular spindle cell lesion with:
*[[Necrosis]].
**Nuclear atypia.
*Mitoses.
**[[Necrosis]].
**High mitotic rate.


=Fibrohistiocytic tumours=
=Fibrohistiocytic tumours=
''Fibrohistiocytic'' refers (only) to the histomorphologic appearance and therefore may be written in quotation marks; these tumours are not derived from histiocytes (or tissue macrophages), as the name implies.<ref name=pmid20055912>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Luzar | first1 = B. | last2 = Calonje | first2 = E. | title = Cutaneous fibrohistiocytic tumours - an update. | journal = Histopathology | volume = 56 | issue = 1 | pages = 148-65 | month = Jan | year = 2010 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2009.03447.x | PMID = 20055912 }}</ref>
==Pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma==
==Pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma==
*Abbreviated ''PUS''.
*Abbreviated ''PUS''.
*[[AKA]] ''Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma''.
*[[AKA]] ''Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma'', abbreviated ''UPS''.
*Previously known as ''malignant fibrous histiocytoma'', abbreviated ''MFH''.<ref>URL: [http://sarcomahelp.org/learning_center/mfh.html http://sarcomahelp.org/learning_center/mfh.html]. Accessed on: 8 April 2011.</ref>
*Previously known as ''malignant fibrous histiocytoma'', abbreviated ''MFH''.<ref>URL: [http://sarcomahelp.org/learning_center/mfh.html http://sarcomahelp.org/learning_center/mfh.html]. Accessed on: 8 April 2011.</ref>
 
{{Main|Pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma}}
===General===
*Common sarcoma.
*Usu. deep tissue of the trunk and extremities.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP_613>{{Ref WMSP|613}}</ref>
*Storiform pattern ([[AKA]] ''patternless pattern'') - '''key feature'''.
*Marked nuclear pleomorphism '''key feature'''.
**Variation is nuclear size, nuclear shape and nuclear staining (esp. hyperchromasia).
*Mitoses - abundant; atypical mitoses common.
*Necrosis (common).
*Mix of spindle cells and epithelioid cells.
 
Other findings:
*+/-Giant cells (see subclassification).
*+/-Inflammation (see subclassification).
**Neutrophils.
**Eosinophils.
 
Image:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Pleomorphic_undifferentiated_sarcoma_-_very_high_mag.jpg PUS - high mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleomorphic_undifferentiated_sarcoma_-_intermed_mag.jpg PUS - intermed. mag. (WC)].
 
====Subclassification====
Pleomorphic sarcoma (PS) is subclassified the following way:<ref name=Ref_WMSP_613-4>{{Ref WMSP|613-4}}</ref>
*PS with giant cells.
*PS with inflammation.
*PUS (not otherwise specified) - wastebasket diagnosis; if neither of the above two apply.


=Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours=
=Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours=
{{Main|Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours}}


==Nodular fasciitis==
This is a very large and important group of soft tissue lesions. It is covered in a separate article.
===General===
*Benign.
*All age groups.
*Associated with trauma.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP606>{{Ref WMSP|606}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=de Feraudy S, Fletcher CD |title=Intradermal nodular fasciitis: a rare lesion analyzed in a series of 24 cases |journal=Am. J. Surg. Pathol. |volume=34 |issue=9 |pages=1377–81 |year=2010 |month=September |pmid=20716998 |doi=10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181ed7374 |url=}}</ref>
*Usu. well-circumscribed.
*Clusters of (non-pleomorphic) spindle cells.
*Inflammation (lymphocytes).
*Microcysts in cellular regions - uncommon - ''discriminatory''.
*Mitoses - common.
*Extravasated [[RBC]]s.
 
The BD feature list:<ref>BD. 26 April 2011.</ref>
*Tissue culture-like/CNS-like morphology.
*Thick (keloid-like) collagen bundles - '''key feature'''.
*Extravasated [[RBC]]s.
*Inflammation.
*+/-Giant cells.
 
Notes:
*No significant nuclear atypia.
*No atypical mitoses.
*May be cellular.
 
Images:
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nodular_fasciitis_%281%29.JPG NF - low mag. (WC)].
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nodular_fasciitis_%282%29.JPG NF - high mag. (WC)].
 
===IHC===
Routine spindle cell panel:
*CD34 -ve.
*Desmin -ve..
*SMA -ve.
*S100 -ve.
*AE1/AE3 -ve.
 
Others:
*H-caldesmon -ve.
*EMA -ve.
*Vimentin +ve.
 
===Molecular===
*Evolving - case reports.
**t(15;15)(q13;q25).<ref name=pmid12606136>{{cite journal |author=Velagaleti GV, Tapper JK, Panova NE, Miettinen M, Gatalica Z |title=Cytogenetic findings in a case of nodular fasciitis of subclavicular region |journal=Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. |volume=141 |issue=2 |pages=160–3 |year=2003 |month=March |pmid=12606136 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
 
==Desmoid-type fibromatosis==
*[[AKA]] desmoid tumour.
===General===
*Benign.
*Locally aggressive.<ref>URL: [http://www.dtrf.org/dtrf_aboutdesmoids.htm http://www.dtrf.org/dtrf_aboutdesmoids.htm]. Accessed on: 15 April 2011.</ref>
*May be seen in the context of [[familial adenomatous polyposis]].
 
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP609>{{Ref WMSP|609}}</ref>
*Abundant fibroblasts.
**Arranged in bundles or fascicles.
*+/-Collagen.
 
===IHC===
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP609>{{Ref WMSP|609}}</ref>
*Beta-catenin +ve.
*SMA +ve ~50% of lesions.
 
==Proliferative fasciitis==
*Need to write something here.
 
==Solitary fibrous tumour==
===General===
*Grouped with ''hemangiopericytoma'' in the WHO classification; possibly the same tumour (?).<ref name=Ref_WMSP609>{{Ref WMSP|609}}</ref>
*May be benign ''or'' malignant; more commonly benign.<ref>URL: [http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/diagnosis?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970528-9 http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/diagnosis?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970528-9]. Accessed on: 25 June 2010.</ref><ref>URL: [http://wjso.com/content/6/1/86 http://wjso.com/content/6/1/86]. Accessed on: 25 June 2010.</ref>
 
===Microscopic===
Features:
*Well-circumscribed.
*Fibroblast-like cells (spindle cells).
*Hemangiopericytoma-like area (staghorn vessels) - not seen on image.
*Keloid-like collagen bundles.
 
Images:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solitary_fibrous_tumour_low_mag.jpg SFT - low mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solitary_fibrous_tumour_intermed_mag.jpg SFT - intermed. mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solitary_fibrous_tumour_high_mag.jpg SFT - high mag. (WC)].
 
===IHC===
*CD34 ~90% +ve.
*CD99 ~70% +ve.
*BCL2 ~50% +ve.
 
==Hemangiopericytoma==
===General===
*Grouped with ''solitary fibrous tumour'' in the WHO classification; possibly the same tumour (?).<ref name=Ref_WMSP609>{{Ref WMSP|609}}</ref>
*Arises from the ''pericyte'', a connective tissue cell of small vessels that is thought to be involved in flow regulation.
*Hematologic spread most common - to lungs.<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>
*Oncogenic osteomalacia - assoc. with hemangiopericytoma.<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>


===Presentation===
The grouping includes:
*Usually painless mass, slow enlargement.
*[[Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour]].
*[[Nodular fasciitis]].
*[[Desmoid-type fibromatosis]] (Desmoid tumour).
*[[Proliferative fasciitis]].
*[[Solitary fibrous tumour]] ([[Hemangiopericytoma]]).
*[[Desmoplastic fibroblastoma]].
*[[Low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma]].
*Others.


====Radiology====
=Perivascular tumours=
*Intramedullary lytic mass.
This grouping includes only two:<ref name=Ref_WMSP602>{{Ref WMSP|602}}</ref>
*May be well-circumscribed.
*[[Glomus tumour]] - both benign and malignant.
*+/-Periosteal reaction.
*[[Myopericytoma]].
*+/-Sclerotic border.
 
May be worked-up with angiography to distinguish from a [[vascular malformation]].<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>
===Location===
*Usually extremities - femur or prox. tibial.<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>
 
===Histology===
Features:<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis]. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.</ref>
*Hypervascular lesion - '''key diagnostic feature'''.<ref name=enzinger>Enzinger & Weiss's Soft Tissue Tumors. 4th Ed. PP.1007-13. ISBN 0-323-01200-0.</ref>
**Abundant thin-walled branching small vessels of variable size.
***May be described as "staghorn vessels" or "antler-like" vasculature.
***Cells may "onion-skin" around thin blood vessels.
*Spindle or ovoid shaped cells in nests or sheets.
 
===IHC===
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP609>{{Ref WMSP|609}}</ref><ref name=enzinger/>
*Vimentin +ve (usually).
*Desmin -ve (typical).
*Factor VIII -ve (marks endothelium).
*CD34 +ve.
**CD34 usu. -ve in synovial sarcoma.
*CD31 -ve (marks benign endothelium).
*vWF (von Willebrand factor) -ve.
 
May be in the DDx for [[meningioma]]:<ref>Croul, SE. 8 November 2010.</ref>
*EMA -ve.
*S100 -ve.
 
===DDx===
*Other vascular tumours.
*Vascular malformations.
*Synovial sarcoma.
 
==Desmoplastic fibroblastoma==
*AKA ''collagenous fibroma''.<ref name=pmid18271804>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Watanabe | first1 = H. | last2 = Ishida | first2 = Y. | last3 = Nagashima | first3 = K. | last4 = Makino | first4 = T. | last5 = Norisugi | first5 = O. | last6 = Shimizu | first6 = T. | title = Desmoplastic fibroblastoma (collagenous fibroma). | journal = J Dermatol | volume = 35 | issue = 2 | pages = 93-7 | month = Feb | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2008.00421.x | PMID = 18271804 }}</ref>
*Benign lesion.
*Classically found in shoulder region.
 
===IHC===
*Beta-catenin -ve.<ref name=pmid18544056>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Takahara | first1 = M. | last2 = Ichikawa | first2 = R. | last3 = Oda | first3 = Y. | last4 = Uchi | first4 = H. | last5 = Takeuchi | first5 = S. | last6 = Moroi | first6 = Y. | last7 = Kiryu | first7 = H. | last8 = Furue | first8 = M. | title = Desmoplastic fibroblastoma: a case presenting as a protruding nodule in the dermis. | journal = J Cutan Pathol | volume = 35 Suppl 1 | issue =  | pages = 70-3 | month = Oct | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2007.00964.x | PMID = 18544056 }}
</ref>
**Significance ???
 
==Low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma==
*[[AKA]] ''hyalinizing spindle cell tumour''.
===General===
*Deep soft tissue.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref>{{cite journal |author=Vernon SE, Bejarano PA |title=Low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma: a brief review |journal=Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. |volume=130 |issue=9 |pages=1358–60 |year=2006 |month=September |pmid=16948525 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
*Myoid stroma - '''key feature'''.
*Low cellularity.
*Spindle cells.
 
Notes:
*Few/absent mitoses.
 
===Molecular pathology===
t(7;16)(q33;p11)<ref>{{cite journal |author=Panagopoulos I, Storlazzi CT, Fletcher CD, ''et al.'' |title=The chimeric FUS/CREB3l2 gene is specific for low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma |journal=Genes Chromosomes Cancer |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=218–28 |year=2004 |month=July |pmid=15139001 |doi=10.1002/gcc.20037 |url=}}</ref>


=Vascular lesions=
=Vascular lesions=
{{Main|Vascular lesions}}
Vascular lesions are "too red"; they have too many RBCs.
Vascular lesions are "too red"; they have too many RBCs.


==Hemangioma==
They include:
===General===
*[[Hemangioma]].
Comes is various flavours:<ref name=pmid10410855>{{cite journal |author=Prieto VG, Shea CR |title=Selected cutaneous vascular neoplasms. A review |journal=Dermatol Clin |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=507–20, viii |year=1999 |month=July |pmid=10410855 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
*[[Kaposi sarcoma]].
*Tufted.
*[[Masson hemangioma]].
**Small clusters of blood vessels.
*[[Angiosarcoma]]
*Microvenular hemangioma.
*[[Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma]].
*Glomeruloid hemangioma - associated with [[POEMS syndrome]].
*Epithelioid hemangioma.
*Targetoid hemosideric hemangioma.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:
*Abundance of benign small blood vessels. (???)
 
==Kaposi sarcoma==
===General===
*Not really a sarcoma.
*Caused by HHV-8.
*Associated with immunodeficiency, e.g. [[HIV]]/AIDS.
 
===Stages===
It is seen in different stages:<ref>URL: [http://www.histopathology-india.net/KS.htm http://www.histopathology-india.net/KS.htm]. Accessed on: 31 January 2010.</ref>
#Patch stage.
#Plaque stage.
#Nodular stage.
#Lymphangioma-like. (???)
 
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_Klatt23>{{Ref Klatt|23}}</ref>- '''key feature'''.
*+/-Nuclear atypia.
*Hyaline globules (intracytoplasmic)<ref name=pmid7528163>{{cite journal |author=del Rosario AD, Bui HX, Singh J, Ginsburg R, Ross JS |title=Intracytoplasmic eosinophilic hyaline globules in cartilaginous neoplasms: a surgical, pathological, ultrastructural, and electron probe x-ray microanalytic study |journal=Hum. Pathol. |volume=25 |issue=12 |pages=1283–9 |year=1994 |month=December |pmid=7528163 |doi= |url=}}</ref> - pale pink globs (that are paler than RBCs) - '''important feature'''.
*+/-Hemosiderin deposits.
 
DDx:
*Angiosarcoma (have many mitoses, nuclear atypia).
*Masson's hemangioma (Intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia).
 
Notes:
*Hyaline globules have a DDx ([[hepatocellular carcinoma]], lung adenocarcinoma, [[chondrosarcoma]]s + others).<ref name=pmid7528163/>
*Promontory sign - small vessel protruding into an abnormal vascular space.<ref name=pmid19318797>{{cite journal |author=Lazova R, McNiff JM, Glusac EJ, Godic A |title=Promontory sign--present in patch and plaque stage of angiosarcoma! |journal=Am J Dermatopathol |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=132–6 |year=2009 |month=April |pmid=19318797 |doi=10.1097/DAD.0b013e3181951045 |url=}}</ref>
**Not pathognomonic for KS.<ref name=pmid20577080>{{cite journal |author=Fernandez-Flores A, Rodriguez R |title=Promontory Sign in a Reactive Benign Vascular Proliferation |journal=Am J Dermatopathol |volume= |issue= |pages= |year=2010 |month=June |pmid=20577080 |doi=10.1097/DAD.0b013e3181cf0ae5 |url=}}</ref>
**Image: [http://www.diagnosticpathology.org/content/3/1/31/figure/F1 Promontory sign (diagnosticpathology.org)].
 
Images:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaposi_sarcoma_high_mag.jpg Kaposi sacoma - high mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaposi_sarcoma_low_intermed_mag.jpg Kaposi sarcoma - intermed. mag. (WC)].
 
===IHC===
*CD31 +ve.
*CD34 +ve.
*HHV-8 +ve.
 
==Masson hemangioma==
===General===
*Benign non-neoplastic lesion - a vessel that has thrombosed and recanalized.
*[[AKA]] ''intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia''.<ref name=pmid15865098>{{cite journal |author=Korkolis DP, Papaevangelou M, Koulaxouzidis G, Zirganos N, Psichogiou H, Vassilopoulos PP |title=Intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia (Masson's hemangioma) presenting as a soft-tissue sarcoma |journal=Anticancer Res. |volume=25 |issue=2B |pages=1409–12 |year=2005 |pmid=15865098 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
*Histomorphologically may be confused with low-grade angiosarcoma or other soft tissue sarcomas.<ref name=pmid15865098/>
===Microscopic===
Features:
*Well-circumscribed - '''key (low power) feature'''.
*Abundant small vascular channels with benign endothelium.
 
Notes:
*Looks like Kaposi sarcoma at high power.
 
==Angiosarcoma==
===General===
*Malignant tumour - with a horrible prognosis.<ref name=pmid20537949>{{cite journal |author=Young RJ, Brown NJ, Reed MW, Hughes D, Woll PJ |title=Angiosarcoma |journal=Lancet Oncol |volume= |issue= |pages= |year=2010 |month=May |pmid=20537949 |doi=10.1016/S1470-2045(10)70023-1 |url=}}</ref>
*Classically on the scalp or head & neck.
*May arise secondary to therapeutic radiation or chronic lymphoedema related to breast carcinoma.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:
*Very many small capillaries of irregular shape lined with:
**Pleomorphic nuclei.
***May have hobnail morphology.
*Mitoses.
*Cytoplasmic vacuoles.
**Cells trying to form lumina - embryologic.
 
Notes:
*Epithelioid variant (with abundant cytoplasm & sheeting architecture) may resemble ''[[melanoma]]'' or ''[[hepatocellular carcinoma]]''.
 
===IHC===
*CD34 +ve.
*D2-40 +ve. (???)
*CD31 +ve.
 
==Hemangioendothelioma==
===General===
*Usually benign.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_Klatt23>{{Ref Klatt|23}}</ref>
*Well-formed thin vascular channels on a fibrous stroma - '''key feature'''.
*+/-Thrombosis.
*+/-Calcification.
*+/-Fibrosis.
*+/-Myxoid change.
 
===IHC===
*Factor VIII +ve.


=Skeletal muscle tumours=
=Skeletal muscle tumours=
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=Tumours of uncertain differentiation=
=Tumours of uncertain differentiation=
==Epithelioid sarcoma==
==Angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma==
===General===
{{Main|Angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma}}
*Rare.
 
*Adolescents, young adults.
==Aggressive angiomyxoma==
*[[AKA]] deep aggressive angiomyxoma.
{{Main|Aggressive angiomyxoma}}


===Microscopic===
==Angiomyofibroblastoma==
Features:<ref>{{Ref WHOSTAB|205}}</ref>
{{Main|Angiomyofibroblastoma}}
*Epithelioid morphology and spindle morphology.
*Prominent nucleolus - '''key feature'''.
*Zonal necrosis with irregular border.
**Descriptors: "Garland necrosis", necrosis with "scalloped border" = necrotic regions with irregular border.


DDx:
==Extrarenal malignant rhabdoid tumour==
*[[Rheumatoid nodule]].  
*Essentially identical to ''[[renal malignant rhabdoid tumour]]''.<ref name=Ref_WMSP627>{{Ref WMSP|627}}</ref>
*[[Granuloma annulare]].
{{Main|Extrarenal malignant rhabdoid tumour}}


===Microscopic===
==Ewing sarcoma/PNET==
Features:<ref name=pmid10452506>{{cite journal |author=Miettinen M, Fanburg-Smith JC, Virolainen M, Shmookler BM, Fetsch JF |title=Epithelioid sarcoma: an immunohistochemical analysis of 112 classical and variant cases and a discussion of the differential diagnosis |journal=Hum. Pathol. |volume=30 |issue=8 |pages=934–42 |year=1999 |month=August |pmid=10452506 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
{{Main|Ewing sarcoma}}
*INI1 +ve.
*A [[small round blue cell tumour]] that may be seen in [[bone]]. It is discussed in the context of [[bone tumours]].
*Vimentin +ve.
*Various keratins +ve.
**Keratin 8, Keratin 19 +ve.
**34betaE12 +ve/-ve.
*CD34 +ve.
**Malignant rhabdoid tumour -ve.


Others:
==Epithelioid sarcoma==
*S100 -ve (r/o melanoma).
:Sarcomas with an epithelioid morphology are covered in ''[[epithelioid sarcomas]]''.
{{Main|Epithelioid sarcoma}}


==Alveolar soft part sarcoma==
==Alveolar soft part sarcoma==
*Abbreviated ''ASPS''.
{{Main|Alveolar soft part sarcoma}}
===General===
*Adolescents/young adults.
*Children -- classically location: base of tongue and orbit.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP627>{{Ref WMSP|627}}</ref>
*Arranged in nest/separated by thin septa; vaguely resembles alveoli (at low power).
*Large cells (~30-50 μm) with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm.
*An eccentric nucleus.
*+/-Nucleolus.
 
Images:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alveolar_soft_part_sarcoma_-_low_mag.jpg ASPS - low mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alveolar_soft_part_sarcoma_-_intermed_mag.jpg ASPS - intermed. mag. (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alveolar_soft_part_sarcoma_-2-_very_high_mag.jpg ASPS - very high mag. (WC)].
 
===Molecular===
*t(X;17)(p11.2;q25).<ref>{{OMIM|606243}}</ref>


==Desmoplastic small round cell tumour==
==Desmoplastic small round cell tumour==
*Abbreviated ''DSRCT''.
{{Main|Desmoplastic small round cell tumour}}
===General===
*Males > females.
*Usu. affects young adults.
*Typically retroperitoneal.
*Poor prognosis.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=pmid10207460>{{cite journal |author=Pickhardt PJ, Fisher AJ, Balfe DM, Dehner LP, Huettner PC |title=Desmoplastic small round cell tumor of the abdomen: radiologic-histopathologic correlation |journal=Radiology |volume=210 |issue=3 |pages=633–8 |year=1999 |month=March |pmid=10207460 |doi= |url=http://radiology.rsna.org/content/210/3/633.full}}</ref>
#Broad bands of paucicellular fibrous stroma with:
#Small round cells in nests with an undulating sharp border.
#*The small round cells lack distinct nucleoli and have scant cytoplasm; they are ''[[small round cell tumour]]'' cells.
 
Notes:
*Usu. abundant mitoses.
*+/-Necrosis.
 
Images:
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Desmoplastic_small_round_cell_tumour_-_intermed_mag.jpg DSRCT - intermed. mag. (WC)].
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Desmoplastic_small_round_cell_tumour_-_very_high_mag.jpg DSRCT - very high mag. (WC)].
 
DDx:
*Metastatic [[germ cell tumour]] (DDx of location and age).
*[[Embryonal RMS]].
**It should be noted that DSRCT, like embryonal RMS, is +ve for desmin!
 
===IHC===
Features:
*AE1/AE3 +ve.
*Desmin +ve.
*EMA +ve.
 
===Molecular===
*t(11;22)(p13;q12).<ref name=pmid17964965>{{cite journal |author=Lee YS, Hsiao CH |title=Desmoplastic small round cell tumor: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical and molecular study of four patients |journal=J. Formos. Med. Assoc. |volume=106 |issue=10 |pages=854–60 |year=2007 |month=October |pmid=17964965 |doi=10.1016/S0929-6646(08)60051-0 |url=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Lal DR, Su WT, Wolden SL, Loh KC, Modak S, La Quaglia MP |title=Results of multimodal treatment for desmoplastic small round cell tumors |journal=J. Pediatr. Surg. |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=251–5 |year=2005 |month=January |pmid=15868593 |doi=10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2004.09.046 |url=http://www.dsrct.com/JPS%20Article.pdf}}</ref>


==Clear cell sarcoma==
==Clear cell sarcoma==
*Known among pathologists as "soft-tissue melanoma" and "melanoma of the soft parts", as it has a strong morphological resemblance.<ref name=pmid18300804>{{cite journal |author=Hisaoka M, Ishida T, Kuo TT, ''et al.'' |title=Clear cell sarcoma of soft tissue: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular analysis of 33 cases |journal=Am. J. Surg. Pathol. |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=452–60 |year=2008 |month=March |pmid=18300804 |doi=10.1097/PAS.0b013e31814b18fb |url=}}</ref>
{{Main|Clear cell sarcoma}}
**Molecular changes and origin distinct from melanoma.
*Incidence: rare soft tissue tumour.
 
===Clinical===
*Usually - deep soft tissue ''or'' extremities.
*Guarded prognosis.
*First described in 1965.<ref>URL: [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/723576818-750600/ftinterface~db=all~content=a789166263~fulltext=713240928 http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/723576818-750600/ftinterface~db=all~content=a789166263~fulltext=713240928]. Accessed on: 5 May 2010.</ref>
 
===Microscopy===
Features:<ref name=pmid18300804/>
*Architecture: sheets or fascicular (bundles) arrangement.
*Cells: Spindle cells or epithelioid cells.
*Prominent nucleoli - basophilic.
*Fibrous septae.
*Uniform
 
Image:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clear_cell_sarcoma.Image12.jpg Clear cell sarcoma (WC)].
*[http://www.informaworld.com/ampp/image?path=/713690780/789166263/sonc_a_284443_o_f0003g.jpeg Clear cell sarcoma (informaworld.com)].
 
===IHC===
Features:<ref name=pmid18300804/>
*S100 +ve.
*HMB-45 +ve.
*Melan A (MART-1) +ve; sometimes -ve.
*BCL2 +ve.
*CD57 +ve (usually).
 
Keratins:
*EMA may be +ve.
*CAM5.2 -ve.
*AE1/AE3 -ve.
 
===Molecular studies===
*Chromosomal translocation t(12;22)(q13;q12).<ref name=pmid18300804/>
**Fusion transcripts:
***EWSR1-ATF1.
***EWSR1-CREB1 (GI tract associated).


==Synovial sarcoma==
==Synovial sarcoma==
===General===
{{Main|Synovial sarcoma}}
*Does not arise from cartilage.<ref name=Ref_WMSP627>{{Ref WMSP|627}}</ref>
**Usually close to a joint.
*Young adults or adolescents.
 
===Microscopic===
Comes in three (histologic) flavours:<ref name=Ref_WMSP627>{{Ref WMSP|627}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Schaal CH, Navarro FC, Moraes Neto FA |title=Primary renal sarcoma with morphologic and immunohistochemical aspects compatible with synovial sarcoma |journal=Int Braz J Urol |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=210–3 |year=2004 |pmid=15689250 |doi= |url=http://www.brazjurol.com.br/may_june_2004/Schaal_ing_210_213.htm}}</ref>
#Spindle cell sarcoma with features of hemangiopericytoma, i.e. staghorn vessels.
#Biphasic synovial sarcoma:
##Spindle cells with features of hemangiopericytoma.
##Epitheliod glands or nests.
#Primative round cell type.
 
Images:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monophasic_synovial_sarcoma_-_intermed_mag.jpg Monophasic synovial sarcoma with staghorn vessels - intermed. mag. (WC)].
*[http://www.scielo.br/img/revistas/ibju/v30n3/3a06f03.jpg Synovial sarcoma (scielo.br)].
*[http://www.humpath.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=1965 Synovial sarcoma - collection of images (humpath.com)].
 
===IHC===
Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP627>{{Ref WMSP|627}}</ref>
*Vimentin +ve + cytokeratin and/or EMA +ve.
*CD99 +ve.
 
Others:
*Beta-catenin +ve ~30-70%.<ref name=pmid16740029>{{cite journal |author=Horvai AE, Kramer MJ, O'Donnell R |title=Beta-catenin nuclear expression correlates with cyclin D1 expression in primary and metastatic synovial sarcoma: a tissue microarray study |journal=Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. |volume=130 |issue=6 |pages=792–8 |year=2006 |month=June |pmid=16740029 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
*Cyclin D1 ~50%.<ref name=pmid16740029/><ref name=pmid15375433>{{cite journal |author=Ng TL, Gown AM, Barry TS, ''et al.'' |title=Nuclear beta-catenin in mesenchymal tumors |journal=Mod. Pathol. |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=68–74 |year=2005 |month=January |pmid=15375433 |doi=10.1038/modpathol.3800272 |url=}}</ref>
 
===Molecular pathology===
Unique [[translocation]]:
*t(X;18)(p11.2;q11.2).<ref>URL: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/300813 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/300813]. Accessed on: 30 May 2010.</ref>


=Other=
=Other=
==Granulocytic sarcoma==
==Granulocytic sarcoma==
*[[AKA]] myeloid sarcoma, AKA chloroma.
*Common alternate terms: extramedullary leukemia,<ref name=pmid21795742>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Bakst | first1 = RL. | last2 = Tallman | first2 = MS. | last3 = Douer | first3 = D. | last4 = Yahalom | first4 = J. | title = How I treat extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia. | journal = Blood | volume = 118 | issue = 14 | pages = 3785-93 | month = Oct | year = 2011 | doi = 10.1182/blood-2011-04-347229 | PMID = 21795742 }}</ref> myeloid sarcoma, chloroma.  
 
*Other terms:<ref name=pmid21556238>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Eom | first1 = KS. | last2 = Kim | first2 = TY. | title = Intraparenchymal myeloid sarcoma and subsequent spinal myeloid sarcoma for acute myeloblastic leukemia. | journal = J Korean Neurosurg Soc | volume = 49 | issue = 3 | pages = 171-4 | month = Mar | year = 2011 | doi = 10.3340/jkns.2011.49.3.171 | PMID = 21556238 | PMC = 3085814 | url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085814/ }}</ref> myeloblastoma, chloromyeloma, chloromyelosarcoma, granulocytic leukosarcoma, or myelosarcoma.
===General===
{{Main|Granulocytic sarcoma}}
*Soft tissue manifestation of acute myeloid leukemia.
 
===Microscopic===
Features:
*May mimic small cell carcinoma, [[small round cell tumour]]s.


=See also=
=See also=

Latest revision as of 12:50, 3 November 2015

Soft tissue lesions strike fear in many pathologists as they are uncommon and may be difficult to diagnose. Malignant soft tissue lesions, i.e. cancerous soft tissue lesions, are usually sarcomas. Sarcomas are malignancies derived from mesenchymal tissue.

Introduction

WHO classification of soft tissue lesions/tumours

Morphologic grouping

These include:[1]

  1. Adipocytic tumours.
  2. Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours.
  3. "Fibrohistiocytic" tumours.
  4. Smooth muscle tumours.
  5. Skeletal muscle tumours.
  6. Vascular tumours.
  7. Perivascular (pericytic) tumours.
  8. Chondro-osseous tumours.
  9. Tumours of uncertain differentiation.

Biologic potential grouping

These include:[2]

  1. Benign.
  2. Intermediate (locally aggressive).
  3. Intermediate (rarely metastasizing).
  4. Malignant.

Prevalence

  • All sarcomas are rare buggers.
    • As the classification has been changing over the past years (with more subtypes being recognized/identified) numbers are variable from study-to-study.
  • Once upon a time almost everything was called malignant fibrous histiocytoma; thus, it is listed as a common entity in some publications.

Most common:[3]

  • Liposarcoma.
  • Leiomyosarcoma.

Molecular testing

Main article: Molecular pathology
  • Molecular testing plays an important role in soft tissue pathology.
  • It is generally seen as an adjunct test that:[4]
    • Often is used to confirm the histomorphologic impression/quality control.
    • Frequently has some prognostic significance.
    • May directly affect treatment.

Translocations

Main article: Chromosomal translocations

Morphohistologic patterns

Main article: Morphologic patterns
Name Description DDx Image(s)
Storiform, AKA patternless pattern[5] whorled, cartwheel-like arrangement pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma, solitary fibrous tumour, dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, dermatofibroma[6]
Patternless pattern. (WC)
Herring bone like herring bone (technique) for climbing a hill in cross country skiing; books on a shelf, where they have partially fallen over -- on the one shelf to the left and the one below to the right fibrosarcoma, synovial sarcoma, MPNST
Herring bone. (WC)
Fascicular the long axis of the (spindle) cells are perpendicular to one another in adjacent bundles of cells leiomyoma, leiomyosarcoma
Fascicular pattern. (WC)
Biphasic nests of cells and stroma synovial sarcoma, DSRCT, alveolar RMS
DSRCT. (WC)

Notes:

  • Memory device: herring bone DDx MSF = MPNST, Synovial sarcoma, Fibrosarcoma.

Grading

  • Several systems exist.
  • The US-CAP advocates the use of the French system over the NCI system.
    • The French system is a better predictor metastases and mortality.[7]

French system

  • Formally known as the grading system from the French Federation of Cancer Centres Sarcoma Group (FNCLCC).

Overview

Components - overview:[7][8]

  1. Differentiation (score 1-3).
    • De facto, this is mostly the histologic type.
  2. Mitotic rate (score 1-3).
  3. Necrosis (score 0-2)

Obtaining a score:

  • Add all the points from the three components.

Scoring:

  • Grade 1 = 2-3.
  • Grade 2 = 4-5.
  • Grade 3 = 6-8.
Differentiation
  • Standardized for histologic types.
  • Most tumours = 3/3.

Exceptions:[8]

A group of tumours is not graded:[8]

Mitotic rate
  • 0-9 mitoses/10 HPF.
  • 10-19 mitoses/10 HPF.
  • >=20 mitoses/10 HPF.

Notes:

  • 1 HPF = 0.1734 mm^2.
    • Most resident microscopes have a field of view = 0.2376 mm^2.
      • Thus, ~7.3 HPFs on a resident microscope corresponds to 10 US-CAP HPFs.
Necrosis
  • None = score 0.
  • <=50% of tumour = score 1.
  • >50% of tumour = score 2.

System used by some at MSH

Some pathologists at MSH use the system advocated by Costa et al..[9]

Scoring

  • Grade 1 = 1 point.
  • Grade 2 = 2 points.
  • Grade 3 = 3-4 points.

Components

Points for each of the following:

  • Mitotic activity >= 6 / 10 HPF @ 40X - definition suffers from HPFitis.
  • Pleomorphism present.
  • Cellularity (cells/matrix) > 50%.
  • Necrosis >15% - microscopic (without targeting necrosis grossly) or grossly.

Stage

Main article: Cancer staging systems

Lymph node metastases in sarcomas

Main article: Lymph node metastasis

Sarcomas more likely to be found in the lymph nodes - mnemonic RACE For MS:[12]

DDx by history/site

Retroperiteum

  1. Liposarcoma.
  2. Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma.
  3. Leiomyosarcoma.
  4. MPNST.

Note: Synovial sarcoma and fibrosarcoma are very rare in the retroperitoneum.

Young person - extremity sarcoma

  1. Epithelioid sarcoma.
  2. Synovial sarcoma.

Gross characteristics

  • Usually non-specific.
  • Most sarcomas have a pushing border.
    • If there is an infiltrative border think: (1) fibromatosis, (2) carcinoma.

Adipocytic tumours

Main article: Adipocytic tumours

This category includes:

  • Lipoma.
  • Liposarcoma.
  • Hibernoma.

Smooth muscle tumours

Main article: Smooth muscle tumours

IHC markers: desmin, SMA, H-caldemsin (most specific).

Leiomyosarcoma

Main article: Leiomyosarcoma

Microscopic

Features (summary):

  • Fasicular cellular spindle cell lesion with:
    • Nuclear atypia.
    • Necrosis.
    • High mitotic rate.

Fibrohistiocytic tumours

Fibrohistiocytic refers (only) to the histomorphologic appearance and therefore may be written in quotation marks; these tumours are not derived from histiocytes (or tissue macrophages), as the name implies.[13]

Pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma

  • Abbreviated PUS.
  • AKA Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma, abbreviated UPS.
  • Previously known as malignant fibrous histiocytoma, abbreviated MFH.[14]
Main article: Pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma

Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours

Main article: Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours

This is a very large and important group of soft tissue lesions. It is covered in a separate article.

The grouping includes:

Perivascular tumours

This grouping includes only two:[15]

Vascular lesions

Main article: Vascular lesions

Vascular lesions are "too red"; they have too many RBCs.

They include:

Skeletal muscle tumours

Rhabdomyoma

Main article: Rhabdomyoma

Rhabdomyosarcoma

  • Abbreviated RMS.
Main article: Rhabdomyosarcoma

Comes it two main flavours:

  • Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.
  • Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.

The histology may be that of a small round cell tumour.

Chondro-osseous tumours

Main article: Chondro-osseous tumours

This grouping includes tumours derived from cartilage and bone.

Tumours of uncertain differentiation

Angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma

Main article: Angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma

Aggressive angiomyxoma

  • AKA deep aggressive angiomyxoma.
Main article: Aggressive angiomyxoma

Angiomyofibroblastoma

Main article: Angiomyofibroblastoma

Extrarenal malignant rhabdoid tumour

Main article: Extrarenal malignant rhabdoid tumour

Ewing sarcoma/PNET

Main article: Ewing sarcoma

Epithelioid sarcoma

Sarcomas with an epithelioid morphology are covered in epithelioid sarcomas.
Main article: Epithelioid sarcoma

Alveolar soft part sarcoma

Main article: Alveolar soft part sarcoma

Desmoplastic small round cell tumour

Main article: Desmoplastic small round cell tumour

Clear cell sarcoma

Main article: Clear cell sarcoma

Synovial sarcoma

Main article: Synovial sarcoma

Other

Granulocytic sarcoma

  • Common alternate terms: extramedullary leukemia,[17] myeloid sarcoma, chloroma.
  • Other terms:[18] myeloblastoma, chloromyeloma, chloromyelosarcoma, granulocytic leukosarcoma, or myelosarcoma.
Main article: Granulocytic sarcoma

See also

References

  1. ↑ Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 601-3. ISBN 978-0781765275.
  2. ↑ Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 598-604. ISBN 978-0781765275.
  3. ↑ Skubitz KM, D'Adamo DR (November 2007). "Sarcoma". Mayo Clin. Proc. 82 (11): 1409–32. PMID 17976362. http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/82/11/1409.long.
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  5. ↑ Mangano WE, Cagle PT, Churg A, Vollmer RT, Roggli VL (August 1998). "The diagnosis of desmoplastic malignant mesothelioma and its distinction from fibrous pleurisy: a histologic and immunohistochemical analysis of 31 cases including p53 immunostaining". Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 110 (2): 191–9. PMID 9704618.
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  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Guillou L, Coindre JM, Bonichon F, et al. (January 1997). "Comparative study of the National Cancer Institute and French Federation of Cancer Centers Sarcoma Group grading systems in a population of 410 adult patients with soft tissue sarcoma". J. Clin. Oncol. 15 (1): 350–62. PMID 8996162.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 URL: http://www.cap.org/apps/docs/committees/cancer/cancer_protocols/2011/SoftTissue_11protocol.pdf. Accessed on: 12 April 2011.
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