Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour

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Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour
Diagnosis in short

MPNST. H&E stain.
LM spindle cell lesion (or very rarely epithelioid lesion) with nuclear atypia, mitotic activity, +/-herring bone pattern
Subtypes malignant triton tumour
LM DDx synovial sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, cellular schwannoma, plexiform schwannoma
Site soft tissue
Associated Dx neurofibroma, plexiform neurofibroma
Syndromes neurofibromatosis type 1
Signs mass
Prognosis poor

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour, abbreviated MPNST, is an uncommon malignant tumour of the nerve sheath.

It is also known neurofibrosarcoma[1] and neurogenic sarcoma.[2]

General

Microscopic

Features:

  • Cellular - usu. spindle cells.
    • Very rarely epithelioid.[3]
  • Nuclear atypia.
  • Mitoses.
  • +/-Herring bone pattern.

Notes:

  • May be diagnosed in a poorly diff. tumour if patient has NF1.

DDx:

DDx of herring bone:

Images

  • MPNST - intermed. mag. (WC)

  • MPNST - high mag. (WC)

  • MPNST - very high mag. (WC)

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Grading

  • Can be graded histologically,[4] and this is prognostic.[5]

Sarcoma grading system[6] - based on:

  • Tumour differentiation.
  • Mitotic rate.
  • Necrosis.

IHC

Features:[7]

  • S-100 +ve ~ 30% of tumours.
  • SOX10 +ve ~ 50% of tumours.

Others:[4]

  • p53.
  • p16.
  • p27.
  • MIB1.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Mills, AM.; Karamchandani, JR.; Vogel, H.; Longacre, TA. (Mar 2011). "Endocervical fibroblastic malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (neurofibrosarcoma): report of a novel entity possibly related to endocervical CD34 fibrocytes.". Am J Surg Pathol 35 (3): 404-12. doi:10.1097/PAS.0b013e318208f72e. PMID 21317712.
  2. ↑ Sham, ME.; Ghorpade, A.; Shetty, S.; Hari, .; Vinay, . (Mar 2010). "Malignant peripheral nerve cell tumour.". J Maxillofac Oral Surg 9 (1): 68-71. doi:10.1007/s12663-010-0019-6. PMID 23139572.
  3. ↑ Carter, JM.; O'Hara, C.; Dundas, G.; Gilchrist, D.; Collins, MS.; Eaton, K.; Judkins, AR.; Biegel, JA. et al. (Jan 2012). "Epithelioid malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor arising in a schwannoma, in a patient with neuroblastoma-like schwannomatosis and a novel germline SMARCB1 mutation.". Am J Surg Pathol 36 (1): 154-60. doi:10.1097/PAS.0b013e3182380802. PMID 22082606.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Zhou H, Coffin CM, Perkins SL, Tripp SR, Liew M, Viskochil DH (October 2003). "Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor: a comparison of grade, immunophenotype, and cell cycle/growth activation marker expression in sporadic and neurofibromatosis 1-related lesions". Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 27 (10): 1337–45. PMID 14508395.
  5. ↑ Kar M, Deo SV, Shukla NK, et al. (2006). "Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST)--clinicopathological study and treatment outcome of twenty-four cases". World J Surg Oncol 4: 55. doi:10.1186/1477-7819-4-55. PMC 1560134. PMID 16923196. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560134/.
  6. ↑ Trojani M, Contesso G, Coindre JM, et al. (January 1984). "Soft-tissue sarcomas of adults; study of pathological prognostic variables and definition of a histopathological grading system". Int. J. Cancer 33 (1): 37–42. PMID 6693192.
  7. ↑ Nonaka D, Chiriboga L, Rubin BP (September 2008). "Sox10: a pan-schwannian and melanocytic marker". Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 32 (9): 1291–8. doi:10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181658c14. PMID 18636017.
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