Primary Ewing sarcoma/PNET of the kidney: fine-needle aspiration, histology, and dual color break apart FISH Assay

Diagn Cytopathol. 2007 Jun;35(6):353-7. doi: 10.1002/dc.20642.

Abstract

A 34-year-old previously healthy Hispanic man presented with lower back pain. CT scan revealed an 8-cm space-occupying lesion in the superior pole of the left kidney with numerous small lytic lesions in the skull, vertebrae, ribs, and pelvic bones. CT-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy revealed a high-grade primitive small round cell tumor with the tumor cells being strongly positive for CD99 and vimentin. The patient subsequently underwent a left nephrectomy. Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis using a DNA probe for the Ewing Sarcoma breakpoint region 1 (EWSR1) on chromosome 22g12 revealed a rearrangement of the EWSR1 locus. The diagnosis of primary Ewing sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the kidney was established.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Biopsy, Fine-Needle
  • Bone Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Humans
  • In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence / methods*
  • Kidney Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Male
  • Nephrectomy
  • Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive, Peripheral / pathology*
  • Sarcoma, Ewing / pathology*