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Background: The group of undifferentiated round cell sarcomas, according to the World Health Organization Classification, in addition to Ewing's sarcoma (ES), includes round cell sarcoma with rearrangement of the gene with partners not from the ETS gene family, sarcoma with gene alterations, -rearranged sarcoma. Despite the fact that all tumors have clear histological and immunological criteria, their diagnosis can be difficult, given the fact that there are overlapping variants of the morphological picture and immunophenotype both within the group and with other round cell tumors.

Objective: Present a comparative analysis of genetically verified ES, sarcoma with gene alterations and -rearranged sarcoma.

Material And Methods: A comparative study of biopsy specimens of bones, soft tissues and internal organs was carried out in 118 patients with ES, 10 with gene alterations and 8 with rearranged sarcomas. All cases were genetically verified. The following research methods were used: histological, immunohistochemical, RT-PCR, RNA sequencing and FISH.

Results: Within our cohort, it was shown that ES predominantly affects bones, while soft tissue localization is more typical for the other two undifferentiated round cell sarcomas. Histologically, in the overwhelming majority of cases, ES is characterized by a monomorphic round-cell structure; on the contrary, heterogeneous structure is typical for sarcoma with alterations of the gene, -rearranged sarcoma. High sensitivity and specificity of CD99/NKX2.2 co-expression for ES, BCOR/SATB2/TLE1 for sarcoma with gene alterations, high specificity and low sensitivity of WT1/ETV4 co-expression for -rearranged sarcoma was shown.

Conclusion: For the differential diagnosis of undifferentiated round-cell sarcomas, it is necessary to take into account the clinical, morphology when compared with the data of the IHC study, and verification by molecular genetic methods is necessary to improve the accuracy of diagnosis.

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