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This report describes clinicopathological findings, including genetic data of STAT6, in a solitary fibrous tumor (SFT)/hemangiopericytoma (HPC) of the central nervous system in an 83-year-old woman with a bulge in the left forehead. She noticed it about 5 months before, and it had grown rapidly for the past 1 month. Neuroradiological studies disclosed a well-demarcated tumor that accompanied the destruction of the skull. The excised tumor showed a prominent papillary structure, where atypical cells were compactly arranged along the fibrovascular core (‘pseudopapillary’). There was rich vasculature, some of which resembled ‘staghorn’ vessels. Mitotic figures were occasionally found. Whorls, psammoma bodies, or intra-nuclear pseudoinclusions were not identified. By immunohistochemistry, CD34 was strongly positive in the tumor cells, and STAT6 was localized in their nuclei. By reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), an NAB2-STAT6 fusion gene, NAB2 exon6-STAT6 exon17, was detected, establishing a definite diagnosis of SFT/HPC. ‘Papillary’ SFT/HPC needs to be recognized as a possible morphological variant of SFT/HPC, and should be borne in mind in its diagnostic practice.
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We thank Dr. Akihiko Yoshida, the Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, for his invaluable advice and suggestions.
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Ishizawa, K., Tsukamoto, Y., Ikeda, S. et al. ‘Papillary’ solitary fibrous tumor/hemangiopericytoma with nuclear STAT6 expression and NAB2-STAT6 fusion. Brain Tumor Pathol 33, 151–156 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10014-015-0247-z
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