Difference between revisions of "Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour"

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*Mitoses.
*Mitoses.
*+/-Herring bone pattern.
*+/-Herring bone pattern.
*Perivascular hypercellularity
*Perivascular hypercellularity.
*Tumor herniation into vascular lumens
*Tumor herniation into vascular lumens.
*"Pseudocapsule" with tumour invasion of adjacent tissue.


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*Plexiform schwannoma.
*Plexiform schwannoma.
*[[Malignant triton tumour]].
*[[Malignant triton tumour]].
**aka. MPNST with mesenchymal differentiation.


DDx of herring bone:
DDx of herring bone:
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===Grading===
===Grading===
*Can be graded histologically,<ref name=pmid14508395>{{cite journal |author=Zhou H, Coffin CM, Perkins SL, Tripp SR, Liew M, Viskochil DH |title=Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor: a comparison of grade, immunophenotype, and cell cycle/growth activation marker expression in sporadic and neurofibromatosis 1-related lesions |journal=Am. J. Surg. Pathol. |volume=27 |issue=10 |pages=1337–45 |year=2003 |month=October |pmid=14508395 |doi= |url=}}</ref> and this is prognostic.<ref name=pmid16923196>{{cite journal |author=Kar M, Deo SV, Shukla NK, ''et al.'' |title=Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST)--clinicopathological study and treatment outcome of twenty-four cases |journal=World J Surg Oncol |volume=4 |issue= |pages=55 |year=2006 |pmid=16923196 |pmc=1560134 |doi=10.1186/1477-7819-4-55 |url=}}</ref>
*Can be graded histologically, according WHO<ref name=pmid14508395>{{cite journal |author=Zhou H, Coffin CM, Perkins SL, Tripp SR, Liew M, Viskochil DH |title=Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor: a comparison of grade, immunophenotype, and cell cycle/growth activation marker expression in sporadic and neurofibromatosis 1-related lesions |journal=Am. J. Surg. Pathol. |volume=27 |issue=10 |pages=1337–45 |year=2003 |month=October |pmid=14508395 |doi= |url=}}</ref> and this is prognostic.<ref name=pmid16923196>{{cite journal |author=Kar M, Deo SV, Shukla NK, ''et al.'' |title=Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST)--clinicopathological study and treatment outcome of twenty-four cases |journal=World J Surg Oncol |volume=4 |issue= |pages=55 |year=2006 |pmid=16923196 |pmc=1560134 |doi=10.1186/1477-7819-4-55 |url=}}</ref>
*grade IV: Presence of necrosis (3/4 of all MPNST).
*grade III: Mitotic count exceeds 4/1 HPF.
*grade II: nuclear size (<3x of neurofibroma cell), hyperchromatic nuclei.
**overlap with cellular ("atypical") neurofibroma (DDx).
 


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