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ArticleThe American journal of surgical pathology2017

Primary Renal Sarcomas With BCOR-CCNB3 Gene Fusion: A Report of 2 Cases Showing Histologic Overlap With Clear Cell Sarcoma of Kidney, Suggesting Further Link Between BCOR-related Sarcomas of the Kidney and Soft Tissues.

Pedram Argani, Yu-Chien Kao, Lei Zhang, Carlos Bacchi, Andres Matoso, Rita Alaggio, Jonathan I Epstein, Cristina R Antonescu

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Article in The American journal of surgical pathology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Primary renal sarcoma with SS18::POU5F1 gene fusion.Genes, chromosomes & cancer · 2022
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  14. Unclassified low grade spindle cell sarcoma with storiform pattern characterized by recurrent novel EWSR1/FUS-NACC1 fusions.Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2021
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  18. [Rare childhood kidney tumors].Der Pathologe · 2019
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  20. BCOR involvement in cancer.Epigenomics · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Pedram Argani*Departments of Pathology and Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD †Department of Pathology, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan ‡Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY §Lab Bacchi, São Paulo, Brasil ∥University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.
Yu-Chien Kao
Lei Zhang
Carlos Bacchi
Andres Matoso
Rita Alaggio
Jonathan I Epstein
Cristina R Antonescu
Johns Hopkins Medicine · USMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · USJohns Hopkins University · USLaboratório Bacchi · BRTaipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital · TWUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
SPORE in Soft Tissue SarcomaP50CA140146 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI SPRIGGS, DAVID R · 2010 to 2014
$11.1M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NCI NIH HHS P50 CA140146
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report 2 primary renal sarcomas demonstrating BCOR-CCNB3 gene fusions that have recently been identified in undifferentiated round cell sarcomas of bone and soft tissue. These neoplasms occurred in male children aged 11 and 12 years, and both were cystic as a result of entrapment and dilatation of native renal tubules. Both cases were composed of variably cellular bland spindle cells with fine chromatin set in myxoid stroma and separated by a branching capillary vasculature. Both neoplasms demonstrated immunoreactivity for BCOR, cyclin D1, TLE1, and SATB2 in the spindle neoplastic cells and negativity in the prominent capillary vasculature. One case was extensively cystic and had hypocellular areas that simulated cystic nephroma; this neoplasm recurred 3 years later as a solid, highly cellular spindle cell sarcoma in the abdominal cavity. The morphology and immunoprofile of these renal neoplasms was compared with a control group of other sarcomas with BCOR genetic abnormalities, including clear cell sarcoma of the kidney (CCSK), infantile undifferentiated round cell sarcomas of soft tissue/primitive myxoid mesenchymal tumor of infancy, and bone/soft tissue sarcomas with BCOR-CCNB3 gene fusion; along with primary renal synovial sarcoma. Our findings show that the renal sarcomas with BCOR-CCNB3 gene fusion overlap with CCSK. These results are in keeping with a "BCOR-alteration family" of renal and extrarenal neoplasms which includes CCSK and undifferentiated round cell sarcomas of soft tissue/primitive myxoid mesenchymal tumor of infancy (which typically harbor BCOR internal tandem duplication), and BCOR-CCNB3 sarcomas, all of which are primarily driven by BCOR overexpression and have overlapping (but not identical) clinicopathologic features.

Indexed as

Gene FusionBiomarkers, TumorBiopsyChildCyclin BDiagnosis, DifferentialGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansImmunohistochemistryIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceKidney NeoplasmsMalePhenotypePredictive Value of TestsProto-Oncogene ProteinsRepressor ProteinsBCOR protein, humanBiomarkers, TumorCCNB3 protein, humanCyclin BProto-Oncogene ProteinsRepressor Proteins

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PMID28817404
PMCPMC5680139
OpenAlexW2794392742

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