Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 93-97Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/106689690501300114
Keywords
primitive neuroectodermal tumor; Ewing's sarcoma; synovial sarcoma; cytokeratin; t(11;22); meninges; spinal cord
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Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET)/Ewing's sarcoma (ES) of the central nervous system is extremely rare and should be differentiated from central PNET and other small blue round cell tumors. We describe a case of a meningeal peripheral PNET/ES of the spinal cord in an 11-year-old boy. Immunohistochemically, the small blue round cell tumor showed expression of epithelial markers and of CD99, thus posing an important differential diagnostic problem with a poorly differentiated synovial sarcoma. Fluorescence in situ hybridization revealed rearrangement of the EWS gene, as seen in peripheral PNET/ES. Peripheral PNET/ES does occur in the central nervous system, but its diagnosis can be extremely difficult on morphologic and immunohistochemical grounds alone. Genetic analysis plays a key role in its distinction from other small blue round cell tumors.
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