Selected topics in the pathology of epithelioid soft tissue tumors.
review · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/modpathol.2013.175.
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Abstract
Epithelioid morphology, mimicking carcinoma, is a key or defining feature of several soft tissue tumors and may be seen in a wide variety of other tumors. This review will focus on those tumors defined at least in part by their epithelioid morphology, in particular epithelioid sarcoma, epithelioid malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, and sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma. The role of loss of the SMARCB1 tumor-suppressor gene in the pathogenesis of these epithelioid soft tissue tumors will be discussed, as will their differential diagnosis with non-mesenchymal tumors, in particular carcinoma and melanoma.
Medical subject headings
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- Biomarkers, Tumor/analysis
- Biomarkers, Tumor/genetics
- Cell Shape
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- DNA-Binding Proteins/analysis
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Down-Regulation
- Epithelioid Cells
- Epithelioid Cells/chemistry
- Epithelioid Cells/pathology
- Fibrosarcoma
- Fibrosarcoma/pathology
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Neurilemmoma
- Neurilemmoma/pathology
- Phenotype
- Predictive Value of Tests
- Prognosis
- Rhabdoid Tumor
- Rhabdoid Tumor/pathology
- Sarcoma
- Sarcoma/pathology
- Soft Tissue Neoplasms
- Soft Tissue Neoplasms/chemistry
- Soft Tissue Neoplasms/genetics
- Soft Tissue Neoplasms/pathology
- Transcription Factors
- Transcription Factors/analysis
- Transcription Factors/genetics