Difference between revisions of "Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour"

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Features:
Features:
*Cellular - usu. spindle cells.
*Cellular - usu. spindle cells.
**Rarely epithelioid.
**Very rarely epithelioid.<ref name=pmid22082606>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Carter | first1 = JM. | last2 = O'Hara | first2 = C. | last3 = Dundas | first3 = G. | last4 = Gilchrist | first4 = D. | last5 = Collins | first5 = MS. | last6 = Eaton | first6 = K. | last7 = Judkins | first7 = AR. | last8 = Biegel | first8 = JA. | last9 = Folpe | first9 = AL. | title = Epithelioid malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor arising in a schwannoma, in a patient with neuroblastoma-like schwannomatosis and a novel germline SMARCB1 mutation. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 36 | issue = 1 | pages = 154-60 | month = Jan | year = 2012 | doi = 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3182380802 | PMID = 22082606 }}</ref>
*Nuclear atypia.
*Nuclear atypia.
*Mitoses.
*Mitoses.
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Notes:
Notes:
*May be diagnosed in a poorly diff. tumour if patient has [[NF1]].
*May be diagnosed in a poorly diff. tumour if patient has [[NF1]].
*Rarely epithelioid.<ref name=pmid22082606>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Carter | first1 = JM. | last2 = O'Hara | first2 = C. | last3 = Dundas | first3 = G. | last4 = Gilchrist | first4 = D. | last5 = Collins | first5 = MS. | last6 = Eaton | first6 = K. | last7 = Judkins | first7 = AR. | last8 = Biegel | first8 = JA. | last9 = Folpe | first9 = AL. | title = Epithelioid malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor arising in a schwannoma, in a patient with neuroblastoma-like schwannomatosis and a novel germline SMARCB1 mutation. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 36 | issue = 1 | pages = 154-60 | month = Jan | year = 2012 | doi = 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3182380802 | PMID = 22082606 }}</ref>


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