Pathologic necrosis following neoadjuvant radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy is prognostic of poor survival in soft tissue sarcoma.

Purpose: Neoadjuvant radiotherapy ± chemotherapy and wide local excision is an accepted management of localized soft tissue sarcomas (STS). Necrosis is prognostic for survival in osteosarcomas, but the significance for STS is undetermined. This study aimed to determine if percent true necrosis, opposed to a combination of necrosis and fibrosis, leads to improved survival in extremity and trunk STS.

Typical and Atypical Granular Cell Tumors of Soft Tissue: A Clinicopathologic Study of 50 Patients.

Objectives: Granular cell tumors are rare neoplasms of neural origin. Despite the mesenchymal nature of these tumors, they rarely occur in the soft tissue, and as a result, this subset is not well characterized. We present the largest case series to date comprising 50 patients with benign and atypical soft tissue granular cell tumors in an effort to better define the pathologic features in this subset of lesions.

Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma of bone with prominent rhabdoid component.

Dedifferentiated chondrosarcomas (DDCS) are rare lesions, defined as tumors having a low-grade chondrosarcomatous component with an abrupt transition to a high-grade sarcoma. Although "malignant fibrous histiocytoma" (undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma) is the most common high grade saromatous component, many different types of sarcoma have been described. We present a case of dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma with rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation harboring a prominent rhabdoid tumor component.

Intraoperative imprint cytology of ovarian transitional cell (Brenner) tumors: a retrospective study.

Literature on fine-needle aspiration of ovarian transitional cell tumor or Brenner tumors is sparse and mostly confined to isolated case reports of metastatic transitional cell tumors. We undertook a retrospective study of intraoperative imprint cytology of ovarian transitional cell tumors to better define the cytologic features of this uncommon ovarian tumor. Between 2005 and 2012, a total of 19 ovarian transitional cell tumors were recorded in our surgical pathology files, 10 of which had concomitant imprint cytologic material available for review.