High grade bifasic synovial sarcoma of the lung

Synovial sarcoma is a malignant soft tissue neoplasm that occurs more often in young adults, affecting mainly the great joints. Primary lung sarcomas are extremely rare. Among the most common are leimyosarcoma, fibrosarcoma and haemangiopericytoma. The diagnosis of primary synovial is hampered becau...

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Autores: Bezerra Junior, Marcos Luiz, Costa, Erick Santarem da, Nascimento, Marilene F do, Mendes, Gelcio L Quintela, Cavalcanti, Aureliano, Pinel, Maria Izabel Sathler
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:Brasil
Institución:Instituto Nacional de Câncer José Alencar Gomes da Silva (INCA)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Cancerologia (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:rbc.inca.gov.br:article/2097
Acceso en línea:https://rbc.inca.gov.br/index.php/revista/article/view/2097
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sarcoma Sinovial
Neoplasias Pulmonares
Imunohistoquímica
Citogenética
Synovial Sarcoma
Lung Neoplasms
Immunohistochemistry
Cytogenetics
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Sumario:Synovial sarcoma is a malignant soft tissue neoplasm that occurs more often in young adults, affecting mainly the great joints. Primary lung sarcomas are extremely rare. Among the most common are leimyosarcoma, fibrosarcoma and haemangiopericytoma. The diagnosis of primary synovial is hampered because the difficulty between diagnosis of a primary and metastatic lesions. The translocation t(x;18) (p11;q11) is characteristic of synovial sarcomas and have been used mainly in the diagnosis of the monofasic type. The immunohistochemical and ultrastructural features are considered to be useful in diagnosing it too. The present report addresses a primary lung bifasic synovial sarcoma, confirmed by immunohistochemistry. The pacient was submited to surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Despite all the efforts she developed distant metastatic lesions and died.