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Dx?
Distribution?
Features?
Dx?
Distribution?
Features?
Spindle cell / pleomorphic lipoma
Cape distribution

-Mature fat
-small uniform spindle cells
-THICK ROPY COLLAGEN
-Mast cells
genetics of spindle cell / pleomorphic lipoma?
13q & 16q
(vs LS, 12q)
Pleomorphic lipoma

FLORET GIANT CELLS
Painful
Painful
Angiolipoma

-Small capillaries
- FIBRIN THROMBI
Hibernoma

Brown fat tumor
Dx?

IHC?
Angiomyolipoma

-Thick walled bvs
- Immature spindled cells
- fat

IHC?
Angiomyolipoma

-Thick walled bvs
- Immature spindled cells
- fat

IHC:
HMB45+
Desmin+
Types of liposarcoma
Well-diff / ALT
Myxoid / Round cell
Pleomorphic
De-diff
Myxoid liposarcoma

- CHICKEN WIRE BVs
- Myxoid matrix
- Adjacent ROUND CELL component
Myxoid liposarcoma

- CHICKEN WIRE BVs
- Myxoid matrix
- Adjacent ROUND CELL component
Pleomorphic liposarcoma

Hard to tell that it is fatty

- Large atypical malignant cells
Pleomorphic liposarcoma

Hard to tell that it is fatty

- Large atypical malignant cells
mass in retroperitoneum
mass in retroperitoneum
Well-diff liposarcoma
• Widened septa
• Low power “busy appearance”
• Heterogeneous cell size and shape
• Lipoblasts may be seen.
• Hallmark finding: lipocytic atypia

Difference between WD-LS vs. ALT?

IHC?
Well-diff liposarcoma
• Widened septa
• Low power “busy appearance”
• Heterogeneous cell size and shape
• Lipoblasts may be seen.
• Hallmark finding: lipocytic atypia
Difference between WD-LS vs. ALT?

IHC?
SITE!

WD-LS if groin, retroperitoneum, intramuscular

ALT everywhere else

S100+ in fat
CD34+ spindled cells
True or pseudo-lipoblast
True or pseudo-lipoblast
Left: Pseudo. histiocyte, multinucleated, eosinophilic cytoplasm

Right: TRUE! Large single nuc, little cytoplasm

Above: True. SCALLOPING of nuclei by fat
Left: Pseudo. histiocyte, multinucleated, eosinophilic cytoplasm

Right: TRUE! Large single nuc, little cytoplasm

Above: True. SCALLOPING of nuclei by fat
Silicone granuloma of the breast

Characteristic cystic spaces
Dx?

IHC?
Neurofibroma
-Tapered buckled nuclei
-Shredded carrot collagen

IHC?
Neurofibroma
-Tapered buckled nuclei
-Shredded carrot collagen

S100 + (Schwann cells)
CD34+ (intraneural fibroblasts)
Plexiform neurofibroma
-bag of worms, tortuous

DIAGNOSTIC of NF1!

CAN become malignant!
Diffuse NF
WAGNER-MEISSNER bodies (highlighted with S100)

• Ill-defined subcutaneous mass
• Honeycomb pattern, reminiscent of DFSP
• Wagner-Meissner bodies are the hallmark.
• Typically does not undergo malignant transformation by itself *usually only if associated with plexiform.
NF1
-name?
- inheritance?
- genetics?
Von Recklinghausen's disease
AD
Mutation tumor suppressor gene NF1 on chromosome 17

5% get MPNST
NF1 clinical features?
• Café-au-lait macules
• Neurofibromas can be plexiform type
• Axillary/inguinal freckling
• Optic glioma (pilocytic astrocytoma)
• Lisch nodules (iris hamartomas)
• Bone changes osteoporosis, kyphoscoliosis, pseudoarthrosis
Dx and main differential?
Dx and main differential?
MPNST
-Must arise from nerve, PNST, or in NF1 patient
- Increased cellularity, fascicular growth, mitoses

Must r/o DESMOPLASTIC MELANOMA! 
How?
MPNST
-Must arise from nerve, PNST, or in NF1 patient
- Increased cellularity, fascicular growth, mitoses
Must r/o DESMOPLASTIC MELANOMA in ddx of MPNST...
How?
Both are S100+ but DM is strong and MPNST patchy. Also MPNST is negative for MART, MelanA, HMB45... but DM often is too! MPNST can show some GFAP+ (DM-)
What is a malignant Triton tumor?
What is a malignant Triton tumor?
MPNST + RMS

Desmin + rhabdomyoblasts
MPNST + RMS

Desmin + rhabdomyoblasts
Dx?
Schwannoma

-Encapsulated
- Verocay bodies
- Antoni A (cellular) &B (hypocellular) areas
-Hyalinized bvs
-Pericapsular lymphocytic cuffing
Schwannoma IHC?
++S100
+EMA in capsule
-ckit
-CD34 (can be + in antoniB area)
Bilateral acoustic schwannomas

Syndrome?
Genetics?
NF2
Merlin gene chrom 22
features NF2?
Bilateral acoustic schwannomas
Glial hamartomas
Cataracts
Meningiomas
rapid growth
rapid growth
Nodular fasciitis

-Well-circumscribed, not encapsulated
-STROMAL MUCIN
-monomorphic
-Tissue-culture like pattern
-storiform
-EXTRAVASATED RBCs but NO HEME
-Can see KELOIDAL collagen
-Reactive atypia & mits

Benign
Nodular fasciitis

-Well-circumscribed, not encapsulated
-STROMAL MUCIN
-monomorphic
-Tissue-culture like pattern
-storiform
-EXTRAVASATED RBCs but NO HEME
-Can see KELOIDAL collagen
-Reactive atypia & mits

Benign
Proliferative fasciitis

vs NF: Both benign, solitary
NF: Younger patients (15-40)

PF: Older patients 40-60, less often trauma related
areas with Ganglion-cell-like myofibroblasts (Actin+, S100-, desmin-)

Must r/o RMS (desmin)
Ganglioneuroblastoma (S100+, GFAP+)
Dermatofibroma / fibrous histiocytoma

-PUSHING border
-Storiform pattern
-can have MNGCs
-can have hemosiderin

Do these recur?
IHC?
Dermatofibroma / fibrous histiocytoma

-PUSHING border
-Storiform pattern
-can have MNGCs
-can have hemosiderin
Do DFs recur?

IHC?
CELLULAR form 25% recur
Classic form no - 1%

+ a1-antitrypsin
+ F8a
- CD68
Dx?

Types?
IHC?
Syndrome?
Dx?

Types?
IHC?
Syndrome?
Fibromatosis
-Benign myofibroblasts, parallel arrangements, elongated BVs, infiltrative
-From fascia

Superficial vs. deep fibromatosis

NUCLEAR B-catenin
inactivation of APC t.s. gene
also +SMA, MSA, vimentin, calponin; (-)CD34

GARDNER SYNDOME
Fibromatosis
-Benign myofibroblasts, parallel arrangements, elongated BVs, infiltrative
-From fascia

Superficial vs. deep fibromatosis

NUCLEAR B-catenin
inactivation of APC t.s. gene
also +SMA, MSA, vimentin, calponin; (-)CD34
GARDNER SYNDROME
gene?
features?
5q (APC in WNT pathway)

AD

Deep abdominal fibromatosis / mesenteric fibromatosis (prominent myxoid change)
Fibromas
Osteomas
GI adenomas
Epidermoid cysts
Fun facts fibromatosis
Intermediate category
Treated with wide local excision

Infantile fibromatosis
- <2y; H&N, UE, thigh.

Plantar fibromatosis is called LEDDERHOSE DISEASE

Abdominal fibromatosis occurs in pregnancy

Juvenile hyaline fibromatosis is a rare AR disorder; in skin, oral, bone, joints

Fibromatosis Colli - seen at birth, sternocleiodmastoid muscle, associated with breech & forceps
Dx?

IHC?
DFSP
- Intermediate category
- Dermis and subq
- Parallel to surface
- STORIFORM cartwheeling pattern
- HONEYCOMB infiltration of fat

IHC: CD34+ (vs DF-)
DX?
DX?
DFSP (honeycomb infilt of fat)
Pigmented DFSP = BEDNAR TUMOR

DFSP with melanin
This area was demarcated from a DFSP in the deeper subq
This area was demarcated from a DFSP in the deeper subq
"DFSP with fibrosarcomatous transformation"

- needs >5% of area
- plump spindled cells
- high nuclear grade 
- 7-10mits/10hpf
- Reduced staining CD34

(one of the only remaining lesions called fibrosarcoma...)
"DFSP with fibrosarcomatous transformation"

- needs >5% of area
- plump spindled cells
- high nuclear grade
- 7-10mits/10hpf
- REDUCED CD34 STAINING!

(one of the only remaining lesions called fibrosarcoma...)
Tumor scapula
Tumor scapula
Elastofibroma

Rare, benign, elderly
Kasabach-Merritt syndrome
Cavernous hemangioma with thrombocytopenia

rare, kids
Cystic hygroma
= lymphangioma in Turner Syndrome (XO)

D240+
Clinical scenarios?
Clinical scenarios?
Angiosarcoma

Skin, liver, bone, spleen

Post-mastectomy with lymphedema (lymphangiosarcoma = STEWART TREVES SYNDROME)

Post-radiation ~ 5y out

+ CD31, CD34
Hemangioendothelioma

INTERMEDIATE GRADE!
... many types...

** (+)FLI-1, CD31
Dx?

IHC?
Glomus tumor
(arises from glomus body - A-V anastomosis involved in heat regulation)

Usually red-blue nodule in deep dermis or subcutaneous tissues of upper and lower extremities.

Can have solid areas

Most commonly subungual region of the finger

+SMA, vimentin, Type4collagen

CD34 in only 30%
-S100
Kaposi sarcoma

AIDS, HHV8
Spindle cell fascicles
EXTRAVASATED RBCs
PAS+ HYALINE GLOBULES
Kaposi sarcoma

AIDS, HHV8
Spindle cell fascicles
EXTRAVASATED RBCs
PAS+ HYALINE GLOBULES
SMA+
Desmin+
SMA+
Desmin+
Leiomyosarcoma

Intersecting fascicles
CIGAR shaped nuc
PARANUCLEAR vacuoles

(-) ckit, CD34
Leiomyosarcoma

Intersecting fascicles
CIGAR shaped nuc
PARANUCLEAR vacuoles

(-) ckit, CD34
buzzwords?
buzzwords?
Botryoid / grape like clusters

CAMBIUM layer

= Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma

IHC?
Botryoid / grape like clusters

CAMBIUM layer

= Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma
#1 stain for embryonal rhabdo?
MYOGENIN! (nuclear)(spec)
Dx?
Rhabdomyoblasts of embryonal RMS

- #1 sarcoma kids & teens
- H&N, GU
-EXCELLENT px

-tadpole tapered cells
-Cross-striations
Embyronal rhabdo mets to?
LUNG > LN > Liver > brain

Alveolar: Lung > LN > bone > brain
Px? 

Site? 

Metastatic pattern?
Px?

Site?

Genetics?
Metastatic pattern?
Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma

"A"wful px

Extremities, H&N (GU rare)

Mets to Lung > LN > BONE > brain

cellular clusters with fibrous septae

Genetics?
Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma

"A"wful px

Extremities, H&N (GU rare)

Mets to Lung > LN > BONE > brain

cellular clusters with fibrous septae

t(2;13)

t(1;13)
Stomach mass, CD34+
Stomach mass, CD34+
IHC?
Treatment?
GIST

ckit
CD34
DOG1

Gleevec
Dx?
Alveolar soft part sarcoma
Rare. teens. thigh.

-organoid pattern
- PAS+ crystals
- TFE3+
rhomboid crystals of alveolar soft part sarcoma
What tumor is classically vimentin negative?
Alveolar soft part sarcoma
Limb-girdle male 15-30y.

Dx?
IHC?
Limb-girdle male 15-30y.

Dx?
IHC?
Synovial sarcoma
(NOT related to synovium!)

Monophasic, biphasic, or poorly diff

Ovoid nuc with abundant cyt

EMA+
CK7 & 19+
bcl2+
60% + CD99
20-40y
Extremity
Aponeurotic lesion
20-40y
Extremity
Aponeurotic lesion
Clear cell sarcoma

Nested growth
Clear cyt
SCATTERED GIANT CELLS
LOW PLEOMORPHISM

poor px
Clear cell sarcoma
Classic stains?
Genetics?
CONTAINS MELANIN!

S100, HMB45

t(12;22)
Abdominal mass

classic translocation?
Abdominal mass

classic translocation?
Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
Always in abdomen
Kids & young adults
widespread serosal involvement

Nests of neoplastic cells
can have necrosis
i/cytoplasmic pink rhabdoid inclusions
poor px

t(11;22)

Classic IHC?
IHC Desmoplastic small round cell tumor?
EMA
NSE
Desmin
WT1
Kids
Diaphysis
Kids
Diaphysis
Ewing sarcoma / PNET

Uniform small round blue cells
Homer-Wright rosettes (surround neuropil)
Ewings
IHC?
Genetics?
CD99

t(11;22)
Immobile patient over bony prominence
Immobile patient over bony prominence
Ischemic fasciitis

coagulative necrosis
fibrosis
myxoid change
vascular proliferation