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| ==Alveolar soft part sarcoma== | | ==Alveolar soft part sarcoma== |
| *Abbreviated ''ASPS''.
| | {{Main|Alveolar soft part sarcoma}} |
| ===General===
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| *Adolescents/young adults.
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| *Children -- classically location: base of [[tongue]] and orbit.
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| *Typical indolent initially - ultimately a poor prognosis.<ref name=pmid17071801>{{Cite journal | last1 = Folpe | first1 = AL. | last2 = Deyrup | first2 = AT. | title = Alveolar soft-part sarcoma: a review and update. | journal = J Clin Pathol | volume = 59 | issue = 11 | pages = 1127-32 | month = Nov | year = 2006 | doi = 10.1136/jcp.2005.031120 | PMID = 17071801 |PMC = 1860509 | URL = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1860509/?tool=pubmed }}</ref>
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| ===Microscopic===
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| Features:<ref name=Ref_WMSP627>{{Ref WMSP|627}}</ref>
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| *Arranged in nest/separated by thin septa; vaguely resembles alveoli (at low power).
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| *Large cells (~30-50 μm) with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm.
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| *An eccentric nucleus.
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| *+/-Nucleolus.
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| DDx:
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| *[[Rhabdomyosarcoma]], alveolar - usu. does not have sheets of rhabdoid cells.
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| ====Images====
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| <gallery>
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| Image:Alveolar_soft_part_sarcoma_-_low_mag.jpg | ASPS - low mag. (WC/Nephron)
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| Image:Alveolar_soft_part_sarcoma_-_intermed_mag.jpg | ASPS - intermed. mag. (WC/Nephron)
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| Image:Alveolar_soft_part_sarcoma_-2-_very_high_mag.jpg | ASPS - very high mag. (WC/Nephron)
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| </gallery>
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| www:
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| *[http://www.webpathology.com/image.asp?case=508&n=10 ASPS - PAS (webpathology.com)].
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| ===Stains===
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| *PAS +ve (cytoplasmic) - considered the most useful.<ref name=pmid17516754>{{Cite journal | last1 = Zarrin-Khameh | first1 = N. | last2 = Kaye | first2 = KS. | title = Alveolar soft part sarcoma. | journal = Arch Pathol Lab Med | volume = 131 | issue = 3 | pages = 488-91 | month = Mar | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1043/1543-2165(2007)131[488:ASPS]2.0.CO;2 | PMID = 17516754 }}</ref>
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| *PASD +ve (cytoplasmic).
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| ===IHC===
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| *TFE3 +ve -- suggestive of characteristic translocation.
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| ===Molecular===
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| *t(X;17)(p11.2;q25).<ref>{{OMIM|606243}}</ref>
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| Note:
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| *Same translocation may be seen in ''[[renal tumour with Xp11.2 translocation]]''.
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| ===EM===
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| *Distinctive membrane-bound intracytoplasmic crystal lattice with ~5 nm fibres spaced 10 nm apart.<ref name=pmid17071801/>
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| Image:
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| *[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1860509/figure/fig8/ Distinctive crystal lattice in ASPS (nlm.nih.gov)].<ref name=pmid17071801/>
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| ==Desmoplastic small round cell tumour== | | ==Desmoplastic small round cell tumour== |