Fibrous tumors in children - a morphologic and interphase cytogenetic analysis of problematic cases

Autor: E. M. Flores-Stadler, M. Thangavelu, Pauline M. Chou, N. Barquin, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: International Journal of Oncology.
ISSN: 1791-2423
1019-6439
DOI: 10.3892/ijo.17.3.433
Popis: We describe and discuss the findings by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) for detection of non-random chromosomal gains, in a group of unusual fibrous lesions in children. Nuclear disaggregation was used to prepare slides from eight cases which were hybridized using alpha-satellite enumeration probes for chromosomes 8, 11 and 17. Trisomy 8 and 11 were detected in a high percentage of nuclei in cases of congenital/infantile fibrosarcomas (ranging from 45 to 80%), and in a low grade fibrosarcoma in an older child (23%). Only gains of chromosome 17 were detected in a case of infantile fibromatosis (22%). In this study we have found that given the unconventional histopathologic features, the detection of more than one non-random chromosomal gains by FISH, may aid in further defining fibrous tumors in children, and may be useful as an ancillary diagnostic test in the future.
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