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POSTERS<br />

cidenza di malignità clinica in una casistica non selezionata<br />

di tumori; 2) valutare il valore prognostico della classificazione<br />

proposta e di una serie di altri parametri.<br />

Metodi. Da 169 tumori mesenchimali diagnosticati presso il<br />

Servizio di Anatomia Patologica dell’Ospedale di Circolo di<br />

Varese dal 1973 al 2004 sono stati selezionati su base morfologica<br />

e immunoistochimica 118 GIST. La significatività statistica<br />

dei potenziali fattori prognostici indagati (sesso, età del<br />

paziente, sede, diametro, MI, aspetto citologico, atipie nucleari,<br />

necrosi, infiltrato linfocitario, infiltrazione della mucosa<br />

adiacente, immunoreattività per CD34, actina, desmina, proteina<br />

S100, Ki67 e p53) è stata valutata con il logrank test o<br />

con il modello di Cox. La probabilità cumulativa di evoluzione<br />

maligna è stata calcolata con il metodo di Kaplan Meier.<br />

Risultati. Dei 114 pazienti con follow-up 15 (13%) sono<br />

morti per progressione di malattia, mentre 63 (55%) pazienti<br />

sono ancora vivi.<br />

Diciotto casi (16%) con comportamento clinico maligno (recidive:<br />

8 casi, metastasi a distanza: 11) appartenevano alle<br />

categorie a rischio elevato (15 casi) ed intermedio (3 casi).<br />

L’incidenza di malignità era più elevata nei GIST omentali/mesenterici<br />

(4/7 casi) e colorettali (4/7 casi) rispetto a<br />

quelli delle altre sedi (stomaco: 5/67, piccolo intestino: 4/37).<br />

I casi maligni presentavano: elevati diametro (mediana: 7,5<br />

cm), MI (13/50 HPF) e Ki67 (11,8%); necrosi estesa e marcate<br />

atipie nucleari.<br />

Analisi multivariata della sopravvivenza libera da malattia<br />

considerando le sole variabili significative all’analisi univariata.<br />

Conclusioni. Un indice predittivo di prognosi (PI) che tenga<br />

conto della categoria di rischio, della sede tumorale, dell’età<br />

del paziente, della presenza di necrosi e del valore di Ki67<br />

permette di identificare meglio i pazienti che necessitano di<br />

un monitoraggio più frequente.<br />

Solitary fibrous tumor: a high-grade, small<br />

cell sarcoma mimic in fine needle cell block<br />

material<br />

P. Collini, M. Barisella, S. Stacchiotti * , A. Gronchi ** , P.G.<br />

Casali * , S. Pilotti<br />

Anatomic Pathology C Unit; * Sarcoma Unit, Cancer Medicine<br />

Department; ** Musculo-Skeletal Surgery Unit, IRCCS<br />

Fondazione Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy<br />

Introduction. Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is an uncommon<br />

tumor. Morphologically, the diagnosis is easy for typical, lowgrade<br />

SFT, but well-established criteria of malignancy are still<br />

lacking. Extrapleural site of origin, hypercellularity, at least focally<br />

moderate to marked cytologic atypia, mitotic index above<br />

4/10HPF, tumor necrosis, and/or infiltrative margins are re-<br />

Fattore HR 95% CI p value<br />

Classe di rischio elevato X 1 13,01 2,68-63,21 0,001<br />

Sede omentale/colorettale X 2 5,13 1,68-15,69 0,004<br />

Necrosi X 3 2,36 0,79-6,99 0,122<br />

Ki67 > 2,70 X 4 1,99 0,51-7,69 0,320<br />

Età X 5 0,96 0,92-0,99 0,028<br />

PI = 2,6 · X 1 + 1,6 · X 2 + 0,7 · X 3 + 0,9 · X 4 -0,04 · X 5 ; Model p < 0,001<br />

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ported to be associated with a higher risk of relapse and a malignant<br />

behaviour. Abrupt transition from benign to high-grade<br />

morphology is reported to occur in rare cases, and related to<br />

“dedifferentiation” (WHO, 2002). We report on two cases of<br />

SFT progressing to a metastatic high-grade sarcoma.<br />

Case reports. Patient 1: A 45 years old woman was diagnosed<br />

a peritoneal SFT. She underwent surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy.<br />

Fifteen years after, bone, peritoneal and (cytologically<br />

proven) liver metastases occurred. She received 8 cycles<br />

of chemotherapy and responded. Patient 2: A 64 years old man<br />

was diagnosed a peritoneal SFT. He was treated with preoperative<br />

chemio-radiotherapy. He had a local response to radiotherapy.<br />

Though he developed liver metastases confirmed<br />

by fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). In both cases, the<br />

primary tumor featured a typical benign/low-grade SFT, with<br />

bland spindle and epithelioid cells, irrelevant mitotic index and<br />

absence of necrosis. In one case the cellularity was very scarce,<br />

with a marked deposition of collagenized stroma. Both cases<br />

showed a strong expression of vimentin, CD34, bcl2 protein,<br />

and CD99. The morphology of liver metastases was suggestive<br />

of a small round cell sarcoma, resembling a pPNET in<br />

one case and a poorly differentiated synovial sarcoma in the<br />

other. In both cases, the immunophenotype was superimposable<br />

to that of the primitive tumor, and a diagnosis of metastatic,<br />

high-grade SFT was made.<br />

Conclusions. In two patients with SFT, at the time of relapse<br />

the typical benign/low-grade aspect seen on the primary specimen<br />

converted into a high-grade morphology resembling a<br />

small round cell tumor (though maintaining the original immunophenotypical<br />

profile). This confirms that SFT can metastasize<br />

in the lack of early pathologic criteria of malignancy. These<br />

neoplasms seem to have the capability to dedifferentiate over<br />

time, even to the extent of giving rise to a high-grade, small<br />

round cell sarcoma. The anamnestic information about the previous<br />

SFT was of paramount value for a right diagnosis.<br />

Prognostic value of FNCLCC grading, mitotic<br />

index, necrosis, and type in synovial sarcoma<br />

of soft tissue: study on 86 cases treated at a<br />

single institution<br />

M. Barisella, P. Collini, A. Pellegrinelli, C. Mussi ** , M.<br />

Fiore ** , P. Dileo * , S. Stacchiotti * , A. Gronchi ** , P. Casali * ,<br />

S. Pilotti<br />

Anatomic Pathology C Unit; * Medical Oncology Unit;<br />

** Muscolo-Skeletal Surgery Unit, IRCCS Fondazione<br />

Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy<br />

Introduction. Synovial sarcoma (SS) is a malignant mesenchymal<br />

tumor accounting for roughly 15% of soft tissue

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