Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours

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This article covers fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours. These tumours fit into the larger category of soft tissue lesions.

List of tumours

Benign

WHO classification:[1]

  • Nodular fasciitis.
  • Proliferative fasciitis.
  • Proliferative myositis.
  • Myositis ossificans.
  • Ischemic fasciitis.
  • Elastofibroma.
  • Myofibroma.
  • Fibromatosis coli.
  • Inclusion body fibromatosis.
  • Fibroma of tendon sheath.
  • Calcifying aponeurotic fibroma.
  • Angiomyofibroblstoma.
  • Cellular angiofibroma.
  • Nuchal-type fibroma.
  • Gardner fibroma.
  • Calcifying fibrous tumour.
  • Giant cell angiofibroma.
  • Fibrous hamartoma of infancy.
  • Juvenile hyaline fibromatosis.
  • Desmoplastic fibroblastoma.
  • Mammary-type myofibroblastoma.

Locally aggressive

WHO classification:[1]

Occasionally metastasizing

WHO classification:[2]

Malignant

WHO classification:[2]

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour

  • AKA inflammatory pseudotumour, AKA inflammatory fibrosarcoma.[3]

General

  • Mostly benign.
  • Children & young adults.
  • Classically located in mesentery of ileocolic region or small bowel.[3]

Microscopic

Features:[3]

  • Inflammation:
    • Plasma cells.
    • Lymphocytes.
    • Eosinophils.
  • Spindle cells without atypia.
  • +/-Fasciular architecture.
  • Mitoses -- though none atypical.
  • +/-Necrosis.
  • +/-Hemorrhage.
  • Calcifications.

DDx:

Notes:

  • Some consider this a wastebasket diagnosis... for benign appearing spindle cell lesions.[4]

Elastofibroma

General

  • Benign.
  • Classically, subscapular in elderly women.[5][6]

Microscopic

Features:

  • Thick bundles of collagen.
  • Elastin fibres.

Image:

Nodular fasciitis

General

  • Benign.
  • All age groups.
  • Associated with trauma.

Microscopic

Features:[7][8]

  • Usu. well-circumscribed.
  • Clusters of (non-pleomorphic) spindle cells.
  • Inflammation (lymphocytes).
  • Microcysts in cellular regions - uncommon - discriminatory.
  • Mitoses - common.
  • Extravasated RBCs.

The BD feature list:[9]

  • Tissue culture-like/CNS-like morphology.
  • Thick (keloid-like) collagen bundles - key feature.
  • Extravasated RBCs.
  • Inflammation.
  • +/-Giant cells.

Notes:

  • No significant nuclear atypia.
  • No atypical mitoses.
  • May be cellular.

Images:

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).[10]

Desmoid-type fibromatosis

  • AKA desmoid tumour.

General

Microscopic

Features:[12][13]

  • "Sweeping fascicles"/bundles.
  • Spindle cells with:
    • Small slender nuclei.
    • Solid dark eosinophilic cytoplasm.
  • +/-Mitoses - may be abundant.
  • Long thin-walled vessels - parallel to one another - important feature.

Notes:

Images:

IHC

Features:[12]

  • Beta-catenin +ve - important.
  • SMA +ve ~50% of lesions.

Proliferative fasciitis

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Solitary fibrous tumour

  • Abbreviated SFT.

General

  • Grouped with hemangiopericytoma in the WHO classification; possibly the same tumour (?).[12]
  • May be benign or malignant; more commonly benign.[15][16]

Microscopic

Features:

  • Well-circumscribed.
  • Fibroblast-like cells (spindle cells).
  • Hemangiopericytoma-like area (staghorn vessels).
  • Keloid-like collagen bundles - key feature.

Images:

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 (?).[12]
  • 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.[17]
  • Oncogenic osteomalacia - assoc. with hemangiopericytoma.[17]

Presentation

  • Usually painless mass, slow enlargement.

Radiology

  • Intramedullary lytic mass.
  • May be well-circumscribed.
  • +/-Periosteal reaction.
  • +/-Sclerotic border.

May be worked-up with angiography to distinguish from a vascular malformation.[18]

Location

  • Usually extremities - femur or proximal tibial.[17]

Microscopic

Features:[18]

  • Hypervascular lesion - key diagnostic feature.[19]
    • 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.

DDx:

IHC

Features:[12][19]

  • 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:[20]

  • EMA -ve.
  • S100 -ve.

Desmoplastic fibroblastoma

General

  • Benign lesion.
  • Classically found in shoulder region.

Epidemiology:

  • May be on the lip.

Microscopic

Features:[22][23]

  • Acellular stroma with abundant collagen.

Notes:

  • No nuclear atypia.

IHC

Low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma

General

  • Deep soft tissue.

Microscopic

Features:[25]

  • Myxoid stroma alternating with fibrogenic areas - key feature.
  • Low cellularity.
  • Spindle cells.
  • +/-Rosette of collagen with central hyaline core.[26]

Notes:

  • Few/absent mitoses.

IHC

Features:[26]

  • EMA +ve.
  • CD99 +ve.
  • BCL2 +ve.

Others:[26]

  • SMA -ve.
  • S100 -ve.
  • Desmin -ve.

Molecular pathology

Calcifying fibrous tumour

General

  • Rare.
  • Benign.

Microscopic

Features:[28]

  • Submucosal circumscribed fibrocollagenous nodule.
  • Psammomatous calcifications.
  • Focal plasma cells at the periphery.

Adult fibrosarcoma

General

  • Malignant.
  • Older adults.
  • Locations: head & neck, extremities.

Microscopic

Feature:[26]

  • Spindle cell lesion.
  • Herring bone pattern - key feature.
  • Mitoses.

DDx (herring bone):

  • MPNST.
  • Synovial sarcoma.
  • Fibrosarcoma.

DDx:

Images:

IHC

Features:[26]

  • Vimentin.
  • SMA.

Congenital-infantile fibrosarcoma

Should not be confused with adult fibrosarcoma.

General

  • Locally aggressive.

Microscopic

Features:[29]

  • Spindle cell lesion.

Molecular

Characteristic translocation:[30]

Myxofibrosarcoma

General

  • Malignant.
  • Usu. older people, superficial (skin/dermis) and extremities (arm, legs).[32][33]

Microscopic

Features:[32]

  • Discontinuous fibrous septae.
  • Myxoid background.
  • Variable cellularity and nuclear pleomorphism.
  • Spindle cells or epithelioid cells.[33]
  • Curvilinear vessels.[33]

DDx:

Image:

IHC

  • Vimentin +ve -- otherwise non-distinctive.[32]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 602. ISBN 978-0781765275.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 610. ISBN 978-0781765275.
  4. ↑ URL: http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/diagnosis?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970283-2. Accessed on: 10 May 2011.
  5. ↑ URL: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1057113-overview. Accessed on: 26 October 2011.
  6. ↑ Ben Hassouna, J.; Hamdi, N.; Ben Bachouche, W.; Bouzid, T.; Dhiab, T.; Rahal, K. (Oct 2010). "Elastofibroma dorsi.". Orthop Traumatol Surg Res 96 (6): 717-20. doi:10.1016/j.otsr.2010.03.019. PMID 20708994.
  7. ↑ Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 606. ISBN 978-0781765275.
  8. ↑ de Feraudy S, Fletcher CD (September 2010). "Intradermal nodular fasciitis: a rare lesion analyzed in a series of 24 cases". Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 34 (9): 1377–81. doi:10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181ed7374. PMID 20716998.
  9. ↑ BD. 26 April 2011.
  10. ↑ Velagaleti GV, Tapper JK, Panova NE, Miettinen M, Gatalica Z (March 2003). "Cytogenetic findings in a case of nodular fasciitis of subclavicular region". Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 141 (2): 160–3. PMID 12606136.
  11. ↑ URL: http://www.dtrf.org/dtrf_aboutdesmoids.htm. Accessed on: 15 April 2011.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 609. ISBN 978-0781765275.
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  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 URL: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-overview. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 URL: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1255879-diagnosis. Accessed on: 2 May 2010.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Enzinger & Weiss's Soft Tissue Tumors. 4th Ed. PP.1007-13. ISBN 0-323-01200-0.
  20. ↑ Croul, SE. 8 November 2010.
  21. ↑ Watanabe, H.; Ishida, Y.; Nagashima, K.; Makino, T.; Norisugi, O.; Shimizu, T. (Feb 2008). "Desmoplastic fibroblastoma (collagenous fibroma).". J Dermatol 35 (2): 93-7. doi:10.1111/j.1346-8138.2008.00421.x. PMID 18271804.
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  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5 Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 611. ISBN 978-0781765275.
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  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 612-3. ISBN 978-0781765275.
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 Nascimento, AF.; Bertoni, F.; Fletcher, CD. (Jan 2007). "Epithelioid variant of myxofibrosarcoma: expanding the clinicomorphologic spectrum of myxofibrosarcoma in a series of 17 cases.". Am J Surg Pathol 31 (1): 99-105. doi:10.1097/01.pas.0000213379.94547.e7. PMID 17197925.
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