BACKGROUND Ewing sarcomas(ESs)are highly aggressive malignancy and are predominant in the long bones of extremities of children and young adults with a slight male predilection and rarely presents at extra skeletal lo...BACKGROUND Ewing sarcomas(ESs)are highly aggressive malignancy and are predominant in the long bones of extremities of children and young adults with a slight male predilection and rarely presents at extra skeletal locations.CASE SUMMARY A 55-year-old woman came to our hospital after finding elevated tumor biomarkers during her physical examination.Her enhanced computed tomography scan showed a jejunal mass.The patient underwent laparoscopic enterectomy.The mass was later diagnosed as ES,evidenced by fluorescence in situ hybridization whereby the GLP ES breakpoint region 1 probe was used,showing that more than 10%of the cells showed a red-green-yellow signal proving the breakpoint rearrangement of the ES breakpoint region 1 gene in chromosome 22.CONCLUSION We describe a case of localized ES at the jejunum in China based on the literature.展开更多
A 21-year-old male visited our hospital with a complaint of aggravating dysphagia and odynophagia for a few days.Esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed huge bulging mucosa with an intact surface causing luminal narrowing a...A 21-year-old male visited our hospital with a complaint of aggravating dysphagia and odynophagia for a few days.Esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed huge bulging mucosa with an intact surface causing luminal narrowing at 35 cm from the incisor teeth.Endoscopic ultrasonography showed an about 35 mm sized irregular margined in-homogenous hypoechoic lesion with an obscure layer of origin.Endoscopic ultrasonography fine needle aspiration revealed spindle cell proliferation without immunoreactivity for CD117,SMA,and cytokeratin.The patient underwent excision of the subepithelial lesion at the distal esophagus.On pathologic examination of the specimen,the tumor was composed of short fascicles of oval to spindle cells with eosinophilic and clear cytoplasm and vesicular nuclei.The tumor cells were positive for S-100 and SOX10and negative for CD117,SMA,HMB-45,melan-A,cytokeratin,and CD99.The split-apart signal was detected in EWSR1 on FISH,suggesting a malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor.At the time of writing,the patient is on radiation therapy at the operated site of esophagus and doing well,with no recurrence for three months.Malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor is a rare gastrointestinal tumor with features of clear cell sarcoma,without melanocytic differentiation,and shows a poor prognosis.This is the first reported case of malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor arising as subepithelial lesion in the esophagus.展开更多
文摘BACKGROUND Ewing sarcomas(ESs)are highly aggressive malignancy and are predominant in the long bones of extremities of children and young adults with a slight male predilection and rarely presents at extra skeletal locations.CASE SUMMARY A 55-year-old woman came to our hospital after finding elevated tumor biomarkers during her physical examination.Her enhanced computed tomography scan showed a jejunal mass.The patient underwent laparoscopic enterectomy.The mass was later diagnosed as ES,evidenced by fluorescence in situ hybridization whereby the GLP ES breakpoint region 1 probe was used,showing that more than 10%of the cells showed a red-green-yellow signal proving the breakpoint rearrangement of the ES breakpoint region 1 gene in chromosome 22.CONCLUSION We describe a case of localized ES at the jejunum in China based on the literature.
文摘A 21-year-old male visited our hospital with a complaint of aggravating dysphagia and odynophagia for a few days.Esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed huge bulging mucosa with an intact surface causing luminal narrowing at 35 cm from the incisor teeth.Endoscopic ultrasonography showed an about 35 mm sized irregular margined in-homogenous hypoechoic lesion with an obscure layer of origin.Endoscopic ultrasonography fine needle aspiration revealed spindle cell proliferation without immunoreactivity for CD117,SMA,and cytokeratin.The patient underwent excision of the subepithelial lesion at the distal esophagus.On pathologic examination of the specimen,the tumor was composed of short fascicles of oval to spindle cells with eosinophilic and clear cytoplasm and vesicular nuclei.The tumor cells were positive for S-100 and SOX10and negative for CD117,SMA,HMB-45,melan-A,cytokeratin,and CD99.The split-apart signal was detected in EWSR1 on FISH,suggesting a malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor.At the time of writing,the patient is on radiation therapy at the operated site of esophagus and doing well,with no recurrence for three months.Malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor is a rare gastrointestinal tumor with features of clear cell sarcoma,without melanocytic differentiation,and shows a poor prognosis.This is the first reported case of malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor arising as subepithelial lesion in the esophagus.
