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Definition / general | Clinical features | Prognostic factors | Case reports | Treatment | Clinical images | Gross description | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) images | Cytology description | Positive stains | Negative stains | Electron microscopy description | Molecular / cytogenetics descriptionCite this page: Gullett, A. Ossifying fibromyxoid tumor. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/softtissueossifyingfibromyxoid.html. Accessed July 18th, 2018.
Definition / general
- Extremely rare mesenchymal tumor of intermediate malignancy and uncertain line of differentiation; characterized by peripheral metaplastic bone and cords of bland, round cells in a fibromyxoid matrix (Stanford University)
- First described in 1989 (Am J Surg Pathol 1989;13:817), now 300+ cases reported (Am J Surg Pathol 2008;32:996)
Clinical features
- Adults, median age 50 years (range 14 - 83 years), no sex predilection
- Presents with small painless mass, most commonly lower extremity, but in any soft tissue location including head and neck
- Usually histologically benign with benign clinical course; local recurrences in 17%, malignant behavior in 5%
- Histologically malignant OFMTs are high-grade sarcomas with distant metastases and adverse outcome in up to 60% of patients
- May have neuroectodermal origin due to CD56+, CD99+ (Int J Surg Pathol 2007;15:437, Am J Surg Pathol 2011;35:1615)
Prognostic factors
- Poor prognostic factors: high cellularity, high nuclear grade, > 2 mitotic figures / 50 HPF (Am J Surg Pathol 2003;27:421)
Case reports
- 21 year old woman with gingival mass (J Periodontol 2009;80:687)
- 56 year old man with 5 cm thigh mass ( Case of the Week #348)
- 73 year old male with left scapular mass (BMJ Case Rep 2011 Mar 24;2011)
- Invasive spinal tumor (Skeletal Radiol 2008;37:1137)
Treatment
- Excision
Clinical images
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CT, chest wall, courtesy of Mark R. Wick, M.D.
Gross description
- Well circumscribed, median 4 cm, usually involves deep soft tissue, also cutaneous (Am J Dermatopathol 2007;29:156) or subcutaneous (J Cutan Pathol 2006;33:749) with radiographically apparent shell of bone
Microscopic (histologic) description
- Nests / cords of round / oval cells, primarily epithelioid, with indistinct cytoplasm in fibromyxoid to hyalinized matrix
- Lobulated at low power
- Surrounded by partial shell of lamellar and woven bone and collagenous pseudocapsule
- Minimal atypia and minimal mitotic figures, but may have necrosis, vascular invasion or high nuclear grade
Microscopic (histologic) images
Images hosted on PathOut servers:
Courtesy of Mark R. Wick, M.D.
Case of the Week #348 - 56 year old man
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Ossifying fibromyxoid tumor
Caption unknown
Lobules of uniform rounded cells
Occipital scalp lesion
Cytology description
- Clusters, cords or small aggregates of round, polygonal or spindle cells in myxoid background with osteoid-like material (Diagn Cytopathol 2004;30:41)
- Malignant cases may show significant nuclear pleomorphism with coarse chromatin, irregular contours and 1 - 2 distinct nucleoli (Acta Cytol 2001;45:745)
Positive stains
- S100 (73%), desmin (38%), cytokeratin (11%), EMA (16%), SMA (6%), INI1 (lost in mosaic pattern in 74%), MUC4 (21%), neurofilament (80%), CD56 (43%) (Am J Surg Pathol 2011;35:1615)
Negative stains
- Alpha smooth muscle actin (usually, may be weak, J Laryngol Otol 1993;107:75)
Electron microscopy description
- Complex cell processes, reduplicated basal lamina (Ultrastruct Pathol 2007;31:233)
Molecular / cytogenetics description
- Cytogenetics: PHF1 gene rearrangement (6p21) (Am J Pathol 2012;181:1069); monosomy 22 can be found in malignant form; may also have complex aberrations (Cancer Genet Cytogenet 2007;176:156, Cancer Genet Cytogenet 2002;133:124)
- Molecular: INI1 gene deletion via FISH in 71% (Am J Surg Pathol 2011;35:1615)
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