Desmoplastic small round cell tumors of the abdomen.

Background: Desmoplastic small round cell tumors (DSRCT) have been only recently identified.

Methods: The authors report DSRCT in two pediatric patients (an 8-year-old boy and 12-year-old boy). In both patients, the initial diagnosis was rhabdomyosarcoma.

Studies of monoclonal antibody BL2-10D1 as a marker for the detection of the urothelial origin of tumors.

Background: In previous studies, the authors demonstrated the value of the monoclonal antibody (MoAb) BL2-10D1 in identifying malignant transitional cells. In this study, the authors evaluate the possible diagnostic value of a murine MoAb, BL2-10D1, raised against human bladder cancer in the determination of the urothelial origin of metastases in a series of 29 patients with metastatic bladder or prostatic carcinoma.

Methods: Using an immunoperoxidase method, BL2-10D1 and anti-prostate-specific antigen (anti-PSA) reactivity were studied, using histologic sections from 18 pelvic lymph nodes and 4 other anatomic sites invaded by transitional cell cancer, and from 7 pelvic lymph nodes containing prostatic cancer.

Successful treatment for a metastatic supratentorial malignant rhabdoid tumor.

The case of a boy with a familial history of Rendu-Osler disease, who successively developed a cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma (at 3 years of age) and a metastatic supratentorial malignant rhabdoid tumor (at the age of 12 years) is reported. After a complete surgical removal, the CSF was cleared by 4 courses of chemotherapy, and the child received a craniospinal irradiation. He is currently alive and well 19 months after completion of the treatment.

Nevi, other than dysplastic and Spitz nevi.

Cutaneous nevi are common lesions that develop by proliferation of melanocyte-derived cells. The majority develop as junction nevi from melanocytes at the epidermo-dermal junction. Cells from this proliferation pass into the underlying dermis forming compound nevi.

[Giant cell fibroblastoma. Apropos of 2 cases].

Two cases of giant cell fibroblastoma (GCF) are reported. One presented as cervical tumor in a 11 year old child and the second localized in axillar region of 14 year old boy. Histologically both showed a typical distinctive appearance of this entity when focal fusocellular cells arranged in a storiform pattern was also constated in one.