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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Histopathology. 2021 May 19;79(3):347–357. doi: 10.1111/his.14323

Table 1.

Clinicopathologic, immunophenotypic, and molecular findings of the study cohort.

Age/Sex Location Cytologic features Myogenin MyoD1 Desmin CK AE1/3 ALK IHC Molecular alterations Metastasis Outcome
1 22/M Mandible Spindle & epithelioid Pos (focal) Pos Pos (focal) Pos Pos FUS-TFCP2 ALK: WT Lymph node NA
2 34/M Mandible Spindle, epithelioid & rhabdoid NA Pos (patchy) Pos Neg Neg FUS-TFCP2 ALK deletion (exons 2-17) No AWD (10m)
3 16/M Mandible Spindle, epithelioid, & rhabdoid Pos (focal) Pos (focal) Pos (focal) Pos Pos FUS-TFCP2 ALK deletion (exons 2-19) Bone, lung, lymph node DOD (20m)
4 43/F Mandible Spindle & epithelioid Pos (rare cells) Pos Pos Pos Pos FUS-TFCP2 ALK: ND NA NA
5* 20/F Maxilla Spindle & epithelioid Pos NA Pos (focal) Pos Pos EWSR1-TFCP2 ALK: ND Bone NA
6* 33/F Maxilla Spindle & epithelioid Pos Pos Pos (focal) Pos Pos EWSR1-TFCP2 ALK: ND NA NED (108m)
7* 74/F Maxilla/gingiva Spindle & epithelioid Pos (focal) Pos (patchy) Pos Neg Pos FUS-TFCP2 ALK: WT Lymph node DOD (21m)
8* 27/F Skull Spindle & epithelioid Pos (focal) Pos Pos Pos Pos EWSR1-TFCP2 ALK: ND Bone AWD (1m)
9 18/M Skull Spindle & epithelioid Neg NA Neg Pos Pos FUS-TFCP2 ALK: WT NA NA
10 29/M Skull (base) Spindle & epithelioid Pos Pos Pos Pos NA EWSR1-TFCP2 ALK: WT Lung AWD (2m)
11 40/F Neck superficial soft tissue Spindle, epithelioid & round Pos (rare cells) NA Pos Pos Pos FUS-TFCP2 ALK deletion (introns 1-16) NA NA

NA: not available, Pos: positive, Neg: negative, NED: no evidence of disease, AWD: alive with disease, IHC: immunohistochemistry m: months, WT: wild type, ND: not done.

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Cases 5 to 8 were reported previously 5, 9.