Extraosseal Ewing Sarcoma as a Rare Cause of the Blueberry Muffin Baby Syndrome: A Case Report and the Review of the Literature
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | American Journal of Dermatopathology |
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| Citation | |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/DAD.0b013e31820bf95a |
| Field | Other medical specializations |
| Keywords | blueberry muffin baby syndrome; Ewing sarcoma |
| Description | The blueberry muffin baby syndrome can be caused by a variety of entities, both neoplastic and nonneoplastic. We present a rare cause of this syndrome: congenital extraosseal Ewing sarcoma. The patient was a blueberry muffin baby with a retroperitoneal tumor, whose cells were negative for neuronal markers and CD-99 immunohistochemically but were positive for a breakpoint in EWSR1 gene. This tumor could be one of the most primitive/undifferentiated examples in the Ewing/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor family. |