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Selected topics in the pathology of epithelioid soft tissue tumors

Author(s) -

Andrew L. Folpe

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

modern pathology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.596

H-Index - 153

eISSN - 1530-0285

pISSN - 0893-3952

DOI - 10.1038/modpathol.2013.175

Subject(s) - epithelioid sarcoma , pathology , epithelioid cell , soft tissue , malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor , melanoma , differential diagnosis , medicine , immunohistochemistry , cancer research

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.

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