Chondro-osseous tumours
Chondro-osseous tumours occasionally cross the desk of the pathologist. They are grouped together as bone may develop from cartilage.
Primary bone tumours are rare; the most common bone tumour is metastases.[1]
Bone tumours occasionally are lumped with soft tissue tumours. Soft tissue tumours are dealt with in the soft tissue lesions article. An introduction to bone is found in the bone article. An introduction to cartilage is found in the cartilage article.
General
- Diagnosis of a primary bone tumour should not be made without radiologic & clinical information!
- Metastasis:primary bone tumours = >20:1.[1]
Common malignant
- Osteosarcoma.
- Chondrosarcoma.
- Ewing's sarcoma.
- Multiple myeloma.
- Metastases.
- Most common tumours metastatic to bone (mnemonic: BLT with Ketchup & Pickles):
Epidemiology:[2]
- Osteosarcoma -> 2nd decade.
- Ewing's ->5-20 yrs.
- Chondrosarcoma -> from enchondroma or osteochrondroma -- patients over 40 yrs.
- Multiple myeloma -> most common primary bone tumour in adults.
Malignant bone tumours by age
Most common by age:[3]
- <1 year old - neuroblastoma.
- 1-10 years old - Ewing's of tubular bones.
- 10-30 years old - osteosarcoma, Ewing's of flat bones.
- 30-40 years old - reticulum cell sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, parosteal osteosarcoma, malignant giant cell tumour, lymphoma.
- >40 years old - mets, multiple myeloma, chondrosarcoma.
Benign aggressive bone tumours
- Giant cell tumours.
- Osteoblastoma.
- Thought to be related to osteoid osteoma.
- If in long bones often diaphyseal.
Summary tables
Bone tumours
Entity | Key feature | Other features | Radiology / gross | Clinical | Stains / other | Image |
Osteoma | normal bone (???) | other features (???) | radiology / gross (???) | ? | no stains / may be assoc. with FAP | Image (???) |
Osteoid osteoma | osteoblastic rimming | anastomosing bony trabeculae | <= 1.5 cm | painful, NSAIDs remove pain, young | IHC / other | low mag., high mag. |
Osteoblastoma | osteoblastic rimming | anastomosing bony trabeculae | > 1.5 cm | not painful | IHC / other | low mag., high mag. |
Ewing sarcoma | small round blue cell tumour | cytoplasmic clearing (due to glycogen) | Radiology / gross | pediatric | PAS+, PASD- | intermed. mag., high mag. - PAS |
Osteosarcoma | osteoid | Other features | Radiology / gross | Clinical | no stains; many subtypes | very high mag. |
Giant cell tumour of bone | abundant giant cells | nuclei of surrounding cells similar to those in giant cells | Radiology / gross | Clinical | IHC / other | high mag. |
Cartilage tumours
Entity | Key feature | Other features | Radiology / gross | Clinical | Stains / other | Image |
Chondroma | ctyologically benign cells | equally spaced nests | Radiology / gross | benign / DDx: chondroma, well-diff. chondrosarcoma | IHC / bone marrow cavity chondroma = enchondroma | very high mag. |
Chondroblastoma | abundant extracellular material, abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm | calcifications surround cells nests ("chickenwire" appearance) - classic | Radiology / gross | DDx: giant cell tumour of bone | S100+ve, vimentin +ve | very high mag. |
Chondrosarcoma | cartilaginous appearance +/- nuclear atypia | Other features | Radiology / gross | Clinical | IHC / may be histologically benign looking | high mag. |
Other
Entity | Key feature | Other features | Radiology / gross | Clinical | Stains / other | Image |
Osteochondroma | Key feature | Other features | Radiology / gross | Clinical | IHC / other | Image |
Adamantinoma | bisphasic - stroma & epithelium | Other features | Radiology / gross | Clinical | IHC / other | Image |
Diffuse tenosynovial giant-cell tumour (AKA PVNS) | pigmented giant cells | nodules | Radiology / gross | Clinical | IHC / other | Image |
Brown tumour | Key feature | Other features | Radiology / gross | due to hypercalcemia; not a neoplasm | IHC / other | Image |
Cartilage
Chondroma
General
- Benign thingy.
- Usual legs and feet.
- May be difficult to separate from chondrosarcoma.
- Multiple chondromas = enchondromatosis; three distinct syndromes.[6]
- Enchondroma = chondroma in the marrow space.
Clinical:[6]
- Pain.
Radiology
Features:[6]
- Lytic lesion.
- Usual close to a growth plate.
Microscopic
Features:
- Ctyologically benign cells is spaced nests.
Images:
Chondroblastoma
General
- Growth plate lesion.
- Sclerotic margin.
- "Young" = growth plates open.
- Typically painful.[7]
Gross
- Well-defined lesion.
Image:
Microscopic
Features:[8]
- Abundant extracellular material - pink on H&E stain - looks vaguely like cartilage.
- Chondroblasts:
- Nuclear morphology variable: ovoid, folded or grooved.
- Moderate-abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm.
- +/-Calcification surrounds the cell nests ("chickenwire" appearance) - classic feature.
- Cell nests have a thin pale blue rimming.
- +/-Giant cells.
- May lead to confusion with giant cell tumour of bone.
DDx:
- Giant cell tumour of bone.
- Chondroma.
- Well-differentiated chondrosarcoma.
Images:
- Chondroblastoma - intermed. mag. (WC).
- Chondroblastoma - very high mag. (WC).
- Chondroblastoma (medscape.com).[9]
- Chondroblastoma with "chickenwire" appearance (medscape.com).[9]
- Chondroblastoma (upmc.edu).[10]
IHC
Features:[8]
- S100 +ve.
- Vimentin +ve.[9]
Chondrosarcoma
General
- Usually a good prognosis.
Clinical/epidemiologic features:[11]
- Usually arise in a (benign) abnormality of cartilage (e.g. osteochondroma, enchondroma).
- May be associated with a syndrome:
- Olier disease (multiple enchondromatosis).
- Maffucci syndrome (multiple enchondromas and hemangiomas).
Notes:
- Review article (from oncology perspective): PMID 17545802.
Subtypes
Several subtypes exist:
- Chondrosarcoma not otherwise specified (NOS).
- Juxtacortical chondrosarcoma.
- Myxoid chondrosarcoma.
- Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma.
- Clear cell chondrosarcoma.
- Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma.
Microscopic
- "Abnormal cartilage":
- +/-Nuclear atypia - high grade lesions.
- High grade lesions:
- Nuclear clearing.
- Nucleoli.
- Hyperchromasia.
- Low/intermediate grade lesions:
- Bi-nucleation.
- Hypochromatic enlarged nuclei.
- Infiltration of lamellar bone ("invasion") - not common - diagnostic.
- High grade lesions:
- Increased cellularity.
- More cellular than cartilage... but relatively paucicellular compared to other sarcomas.
- Irregular spacing of chondrocytes.
- +/-Nuclear atypia - high grade lesions.
Notes:
- Low grade chondrosarcoma are not cytologically malignant; the diagnosis rests mostly on radiologic findings.
- The exception is infiltration of lamellar bone -- this is diagnostic of chondrosarcoma.[14]
DDx:
Images:
- WC:
- www:
Variants
Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma
- Arise in soft tissue; this is where the name comes from.[15]
- Rare variant of chondrosarcoma.
Microscopic: Features:
- "White clouds in a blue sky".
Image:
Myxoid chondrosarcoma
Microscopic: Features:
DDx:
Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma
- Originally thought to be a variant of myxoid chondrosarcoma of bone; however, may not be a chondrosarcoma at all.[17]
- Characteristic chromosomal translocation: t(9;22) CHN-EWS.
DDx:
- Chordoma.[17]
- S-100 +ve (strong).
- EMA +ve.
Image:
Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma
Clinical:
- Abysmal to poor prognosis.
Features:[20]
- Poorly differentiated (mesenchymal) malignancy.
- Well-differentiated cartilaginous component.
Images:
Grading
Features:[21]
- Grade I: mild-to-moderate increase of cellularity +/- binucleated cells.
- Grade II: between Grade I and Grade III.
- Grade III: nuclear pleomorphism, mitoses common.
IHC
- S-100 -ve. (???)
Bone
Osteoma
General
- Benign.
- May be associated with familial adenomatous polyposis.
- Normal bone - unusual location/outgrowth.
Microscopic
Features:
- Normal bone.
Osteoid osteoma
General
- Benign bone lesion.
Clinical:[22]
- Extremely painful.
- Relieved by NSAIDS.
Microscopic
Features:[22]
- Anastomosing bony trabeculae with:
- Variable mineralization.
- Mineralization (calcium phosphate) = purple on H&E stain.
- Osteoblasts rimming.
- Cells line-up at edge of bone.
- Variable mineralization.
Note:
- Histomorphologically near identical/indistinguishable from osteoblastoma.[23]
Images:
- Osteoid osteoma - CT scan (med.utah.edu).
- Osteoid osteoma (sciencephoto.com).
- Osteoid osteoma - low mag. (WC).
- Osteoid osteoma - high mag. (WC).
Osteoblastoma
General
- Benign bone tumour.
Microscopic
Features:[22]
- Anastomosing bony trabeculae with:
- Osteoblasts rimming.
- Cells line-up at edge of bone.
- Osteoblasts rimming.
Notes:
- Histomorphologically near identical/indistinguishable from osteoid osteoma.[23]
- Must be greater 1.5 cm by definition.[23]
Images:
Ewing sarcoma
- AKA EWS/pPNET, AKA (confusingly) EWS/PNET:
- EWS = Ewing sarcoma.
- pPNET = peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumour.
- EWS and pPNET were once thought to be different tumours.
Notes:
- Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumour should not be confused with primitive neuroectodermal tumour, commonly abbreviated PNET, a (supertentorial) brain tumour with similarities to medulloblastoma.
General
Clinical:
- Painful.
- Usually younger than 20 years.
- Second most common malignant bone tumour in children.
- Most common malignant bone tumour = osteosarcoma (AKA osteogenic sarcoma).
Poor prognostic factors:[24]
- Age (18 years-old+).
- Pelvis (extremity = good).
- >8 cm.
- Metastases.
- EWS-FL1 fusion type 2.
- >90% necrosis.
Etiology:
- Unknown origin; hypothesis: Ewing sarcoma arises from mesenchymal stem cell.[25]
Radiology
Features:[26]
- Long bones, diaphyses.
- Destructive.
- "Onion-skin" periosteal reaction.
Microscopic
Features:[27]
- Scant clear cytoplasm (contain glycogen -- PAS +ve, PAS-D -ve) - key feature.
- Round small nucleus.
- Usu. lack nucleoli.
- Usu. minimal-moderate size variation.
- Mitoses (common).
Notes:
- It is a small round cell tumour.
- Rhabdomyosarcoma occasionally has cytoplasmic clearing (due to glycogen).[28]
Images:
- WC:
- www:
IHC
Features:[29]
- CD99 +ve -- 1. diffuse, 2. plasma membrane staining; both required -- most specific.
- FLI-1 +ve.[30]
- CD45 -ve.
- Done to r/o lymphoma.
- +/-Neural markers (NSE, synaptophysin, CD57 (??? CD56 ???), S100).
- +/-Cytokeratins.
- Caveolin-1 +ve in ~ 85% of EWS.[31]
- WT-1 -ve.[32]
Notes:[33]
- CD99 +ve
- Plasma membrane staining tumours:
- Weak/cytoplasmic staining:
- FLI-1 +ve:[30]
- Vascular neoplasms.
- -/+Merkel cell carcinoma.
- -/+Melanoma.
Molecular diagnostics
Common features:
- EWS/FLI-1 fusion gene formation due to translocation: t(11;22)(q24;q12).[34][35]
- Often detected by RT-PCR (with EWS 5' and FLI-1 3' primers).
- Type 1 = EWS exon 7 + FLI-1 exon 6; good prognosis.
- Type 2 = others; poor prognosis.
Notes:
- The t(11;22)(q24;q12) is seen in ~90% of EWS/PNET... but also in:
- Olfactory neuroblastoma.
- Small cell osteogenic sarcoma (small cell variant of osteosarcoma).
- Polyphenotypic tumours.
- Rhabdomyosarcoma.
- Neuroblastoma (possibly).
- Several other EWS translocations exist.[36]
- ERG,[37] ETV1, E1AF and FEV.
- Lack of molecular findings does not exclude Ewing sarcoma.
- Testing:
- A break apart probe for EWS is a common way to look for pathologic change, as it covers almost all variants.
Electron microscopy
- Primitive cell junctions.
- Clear zone (glycogen lakes).
Osteosarcoma
- AKA osteogenic sarcoma.
General
- Most common malignant bone tumour in children.
- May be seen in the context of Li-Fraumeni syndrome.
Trivia:
- Terry Fox was afflicited by this tumour.
Definition
- Tumour that makes osteoid.
- Osteoid = (extracellular) organic component of bone, normally produced by osteoblasts (cells which make bone matrix).
Microscopic
Features:
- Cells with malignant features (e.g. nuclear membrane irregularities, marked nuclear size differences, mitoses) surrounded by delicate strands of osteoid.
- Osteoid on H&E: pink, homogenous, "glassy".
- Tumours typically very cellular - when compared to normal bone.
- Large (multinucleated) osteoclast-like giant cells may be seen.[38]
Images:
- Osteosarcoma - intermed. mag. (WC).
- Osteosarcoma - very high mag. (WC).
- Small cell osteosarcoma - intermed. mag. (WC).
- Small cell osteosarcoma - high mag. (WC).
Subtypes
- Many subtypes exist.
- Conventional osteosarcoma (high grade).
- Osteoblastic.
- Fibroblastic - undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma-like/MFH-like.
- Images: Fibroblastic osteosarcoma (upmc.edu).
- Chondroblastic - may be confused with chondrosarcoma.
- Small cell - may mimic (other) small round cell tumours.
- Telangiectatic - extremely vascular.
- Parosteal.
- Low grade.
- Arises from surface of bone.[41]
- Periosteal.
- Low grade central.
- High grade surface.
- Secondary - arise due to something else (e.g. Paget disease of the bone (~80% of secondary osteosarcomas), radiation (~15% of secondary osteosarcomas)).[42]
- Gnathic - jaw bones; usu. chondroblastic.
Giant cell tumour of bone
General
Features:[43]
- Approximately 5% of primary bone tumours.
- Typical age: 20-45 years.
Clinical
- Location: growth plate of long bones.[44]
- May present with joint pain, immobility.
Note:
- Several types of giant cell tumours exist.
Microscopic
Features:[45]
- Giant cells with a large number of nuclei (usu. >10 in the plane of section).
- Usu. have prominent nucleoli.
- Mononuclear cells and small multinucleated cells with nuclei similar to those in the giant cells - key feature.
Notes:
- Giant cells typically present in abundance.
DDx:
- Giant cell lesions.
- Aneurysmal bone cyst - typically has spindle cells around the giant cells.
Images:
IHC
Other
This section collects stuff that doesn't neatly fit into the bone or cartilage category.
Osteochondroma
General
- Benign.
- Usually metaphyseal lesions.
- Very common.
- Abnormal outgrowth of bone and cartilage.
Microscopic
Features:
- Normal bone and cartilage.
Images:
Diffuse tenosynovial giant-cell tumour
- AKA tenosynovial giant-cell tumour, diffuse type.
- Previously known as pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS).[48]
General
- Course: benign.
- Giant cell tumor of the tendon sheath is considered to be the soft-tissue counterpart of PVNS.[49]
Microscopic
Features:[50]
- Subsynovial nodules composed of cells with:
- Abundant cytoplasm.
- Pale nuclei.
- Multinucleated giant cells.
- Hemosiderin-laden macrophages.
- Foam cells.
Images:
Adamantinoma
- Should not be confused with adenomatoid tumour.
General
Features:[26]
- Rare: < 1% of bone tumours.
- 25-35 years old.
- Tibia, fibula.
- Benign, may be locally aggressive.
- Cousin of ameloblastoma. (???)
Radiology
- Intracortical, radiolucent.
Microscopic
Features:
- Biphasic tumour:
- Fibrous/spindle cell component.
- Epithelial component.
Images:
DDx:[52]
- Vascular tumours (Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma).
- Metastatic carcinoma.
IHC
Features:[52]
- CK14 +ve (HMWK).[53]
- CK19 +ve (LMWK).
- CK8/18 -ve (LMWK).
Brown tumour
General
- Not a true neoplasm,[54] i.e. the name is a misnomer.
- May (clinically) mimic a true neoplasm.
- Due to hyperparathyroidism - usually parathyroid adenoma.
- Usually secondary to chronic renal failure.
Hypercalcemia DDx
Mnemonic GRIMED:[55]
- Granulomatous disease (tuberculosis, sarcoidosis).
- Renal disease.
- Immobility.
- Malignancy (esp. squamous cell carcinoma, plasmacytoma).
- Endocrine (primary hyperparathyroidism - leads to brown tumour).
- Drugs (thiazides ... others).
Microscopic
Features:
- Fibrosis.
- +/-Giant cells with round to oval nuclei and nucleoli.[56]
- Bone unaffected by tumour - increased numbers of the following:
- Multinucleated cells (osteoclasts).
- Mononuclear cells around the bony trabeculae (osteoblasts).
DDx:
- Giant cell tumour of bone and other giant cell lesions.
Images:
See also
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