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ArticleCase reports in women's health2020

TMP3-NTRK1 rearranged uterine sarcoma: A case report.

William Boyle, Anthony Williams, Sudha Sundar, Jason Yap, Philippe Taniere, Pauline Rehal, Raji Ganesan

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Article in Case reports in women's health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Future oncology (London, England) · 2025
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  2. High-Grade Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma withJournal of clinical medicine · 2026
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  9. NTRK-rearranged spindle cell sarcoma of the uterine cervix with a novel NUMA1::NTRK1 fusion.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2024
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  10. TPM3::NTRK1-rearranged uterine sarcoma: case report and literature review.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2024
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  11. Case Report: A case ofFrontiers in oncology · 2023
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  14. Case report:Gynecologic oncology reports · 2021
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  15. Update on Endometrial Stromal Tumours of the Uterus.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

William BoyleBirmingham Women's Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2TG, United Kingdom.
Anthony WilliamsBirmingham Women's Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2TG, United Kingdom.
Sudha SundarBirmingham City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, United Kingdom.
Jason YapBirmingham City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, United Kingdom.
Philippe TaniereQueen Elizabeth Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2TH, United Kingdom.
Pauline RehalBirmingham Women's Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2TG, United Kingdom.
Raji GanesanBirmingham Women's Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2TG, United Kingdom.
Birmingham Women's Hospital · GBBirmingham City Hospital · GBQueen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionUterine sarcomas are a group of rare tumours with heterogeneous morphological and genetic features. Recent advances in the molecular characterisation of these tumours have identified a novel clinicopathological category underpinned by NTRK gene fusions. CASE REPORT: We present the case of a 42-year-old woman with a polypoid cervical lesion formed of densely cellular, short, haphazard fascicles of monomorphic spindle cells that lacked coagulative necrosis and which showed high mitotic activity. On immunohistochemistry, the tumour was diffusely positive for pan-Trk and weakly positive for CD34 but was negative for a range of other markers, including cytokeratins, smooth muscle markers, hormone receptors and S100. FISH analysis using a NTRK1 break-apart probe was above the threshold for translocation positivity and subsequent next-generation sequencing (NGS) identified a TPM3-NTRK1 fusion. DISCUSSION: NTRK-rearranged uterine sarcomas are a novel subset of gynaecological mesenchymal neoplasms characterised by cytological isomorphism and fibrosarcoma-like morphology. Although distinction from more common mesenchymal neoplasms is possible on the basis of morphology and immunohistochemistry, exclusion of rare differential diagnoses, such as malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour or the recently described COL1A1-PDGFB fusion sarcoma, requires molecular work-up with FISH or NGS. Identification of these rare tumours is clinically relevant because of their cervical location and the possible role for tropomyosin receptor kinase inhibitors in their treatment.

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NTRKSarcomaUterus

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PMID32939344
PMCPMC7479314
OpenAlexW3080619463

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