Mixed-type liposarcoma: clinicopathological, immunohistochemical, and molecular analysis of a case arising in deep soft tissues of the lower extremity

Virchows Arch. 2008 Aug;453(2):197-201. doi: 10.1007/s00428-008-0624-7. Epub 2008 Jun 13.

Abstract

A rare case of mixed-type liposarcoma arising in deep soft tissue of the right thigh of a 45-year-old female patient is reported. The neoplasm was completely excised and was composed of an irregular admixture of areas of atypical lipomatous tumor/well-differentiated liposarcoma of the lipoma-like subtype with areas of myxoid/round cell liposarcoma. An amplification of the MDM2 and CDK4 genes respectively in the atypical lipomatous tumor/well-differentiated liposarcoma areas was detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis, and translocations of the CHOP and FUS genes were detected by FISH analysis in the myxoid/round cell liposarcoma areas.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4 / metabolism
  • Female
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
  • Liposarcoma / chemistry
  • Liposarcoma / pathology*
  • Liposarcoma, Myxoid / chemistry
  • Liposarcoma, Myxoid / pathology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2 / metabolism
  • RNA-Binding Protein FUS / genetics
  • Thigh
  • Transcription Factor CHOP / genetics
  • Translocation, Genetic

Substances

  • DDIT3 protein, human
  • RNA-Binding Protein FUS
  • Transcription Factor CHOP
  • MDM2 protein, human
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2
  • CDK4 protein, human
  • Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4