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SynthesisDiagnostic pathology2023

Epithelioid and spindle rhabdomyosarcoma with TFCP2 rearrangement in abdominal wall: a distinctive entity with poor prognosis.

Yuan Li, Dan Li, Jingyu Wang, Jinlong Tang

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Synthesis in Diagnostic pathology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yuan LiDepartment of Pediatrics, the Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, 310000, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. liyuan_wz@163.com.
Dan LiDepartment of Pediatrics, the Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, 310000, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Jingyu WangDepartment of Pathology, Ministry of scientific research and discipline construction, Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University, The First Hospital of Jiaxing, 314001, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China.
Jinlong TangDepartment of Pathology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University · CNJiaxing University · CNSecond Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University · CN

Funding

Jiaxing Municipal Science and Technology Project 2019AY32026
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEpithelioid and spindle rhabdomyosarcoma (ES-RMS) with TFCP2 rearrangement is a recently discovered rare variant of rhabdomyosarcoma composed of epithelioid and spindle cells, because it shows extraordinarily adverse prognosis and is easily misdiagnosed as other epithelioid or spindle cell tumors.

methodsA rare case of ES-RMS with TFCP2 rearrangement was presented and English literatures in Pubmed online up to 01 July 2022 were gathered by two authors for a systematic review according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. CASE PRESENTATION/

resultsWe report a case of ES-RMS in an early 30s-years-old female, the neoplastic cells are remarkably immunoreactive with CK(AE1/AE3), and partially with ALK protein. Unexpectedly, the tumor shows TFCP2 rearrangement with coexistence of increased copy numbers of EWSR1 and ROS1 gene and MET gene mutation. Besides, Next-generation sequencing for genetic mutational profiling revealed frequent MET exon14 mutations in chromosome 7, most of which are C > T nonsynonymous SNV, and exon42 of ROS1 in chromosome 6 showed frequent G > T mutation up to 57.54%. In addition, neither MyoD1 mutation nor gene fusions were detected. Moreover, the patient shows high tumor mutational burden (TMB) up to 14.11 counts/Mb. Finally, as many cases of ES-RMS including our case had local progression or metastasis, we find, similar to epithelioid rhabdomyosarcoma (median survival time is 10 month), ES-RMS shows a more aggressive behavior and adverse prognosis (median survival time is 17 month) than spindle cell/sclerosing rhabdomyosarcoma (median survival time is 65 month) according previous studies.

conclusionsES-RMS with TFCP2 rearrangement is a rare malignant tumor and easily confused with other epithelioid or spindle cell tumors, it may harbor additional gene alteration in addition to TFCP2 rearrangement, such as MET mutation, increased copy numbers of EWSR1 and ROS1 gene, high TMB. Most importantly, it may show very poor outcome with extensive metastasis.

Indexed as

Abdominal WallRhabdomyosarcomaAdultBiomarkers, TumorDNA-Binding ProteinsFemaleHumansPrognosisProtein-Tyrosine KinasesProto-Oncogene ProteinsTranscription FactorsBiomarkers, TumorDNA-Binding ProteinsProtein-Tyrosine KinasesProto-Oncogene ProteinsTFCP2 protein, humanTranscription FactorsEpithelioid and spindle rhabdomyosarcomaPoor prognosisTFCP2 rearrangement

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PMID36998041
PMCPMC10061849
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