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*Rare.
*Rare.
*Adolescents, young adults.
*Adolescents, young adults.
Subclassification:<ref name=pmid9042279>{{cite journal |author=Guillou L, Wadden C, Coindre JM, Krausz T, Fletcher CD |title="Proximal-type" epithelioid sarcoma, a distinctive aggressive neoplasm showing rhabdoid features. Clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural study of a series |journal=Am. J. Surg. Pathol. |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=130–46 |year=1997 |month=February |pmid=9042279 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
*Proximal type:
**More aggressive.
*Distal type:


===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref>{{Ref WHOSTAB|205}}</ref>
Features:<ref>{{Ref WHOSTAB|205}}</ref>
*Epithelioid morphology and spindle morphology.
*Epithelioid morphology and spindle morphology - which predominates is dependent on location (see subclassification).
*Prominent nucleolus - '''key feature'''.
*+/-Prominent nucleolus - '''distinctive feature'''.
*Zonal necrosis with irregular border.
*Zonal necrosis with irregular border.
**Descriptors: "Garland necrosis", necrosis with "scalloped border" = necrotic regions with irregular border.  
**Descriptors: "Garland necrosis", necrosis with "scalloped border" = necrotic regions with irregular border.  
Subclassification:<ref name=pmid9042279>{{cite journal |author=Guillou L, Wadden C, Coindre JM, Krausz T, Fletcher CD |title="Proximal-type" epithelioid sarcoma, a distinctive aggressive neoplasm showing rhabdoid features. Clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural study of a series |journal=Am. J. Surg. Pathol. |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=130–46 |year=1997 |month=February |pmid=9042279 |doi= |url=}}</ref>
*Proximal-type (proximal location):
**More epithelioid.
*Distal-type (distal location):
**More spindled.
**Granuloma-like pattern.


DDx:
DDx:
*Carcinoma.
*[[Rheumatoid nodule]].  
*[[Rheumatoid nodule]].  
*[[Granuloma annulare]].
*[[Granuloma annulare]].


===Microscopic===
===IHC===
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>
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>
*INI1 (SMARCB1<ref>{{OMIM|601607}}</ref>) -ve.<ref name=pmid19997734>{{cite journal |author=Mentzel T |title=[Epithelioid sarcoma: morphologic variants and differential diagnosis] |language=German |journal=Pathologe |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=135–41 |year=2010 |month=March |pmid=19997734 |doi=10.1007/s00292-009-1250-0 |url=}}</ref>
*INI1 (SMARCB1<ref>{{OMIM|601607}}</ref>) -ve.<ref name=pmid19997734>{{cite journal |author=Mentzel T |title=[Epithelioid sarcoma: morphologic variants and differential diagnosis] |language=German |journal=Pathologe |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=135–41 |year=2010 |month=March |pmid=19997734 |doi=10.1007/s00292-009-1250-0 |url=}}</ref>
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