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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">179</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL AND IMMUNOPHENOTYPIC CHARACTERISTICS OF EWINGS SARCOMA FAMILY OF TUMORS: SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON ROLE OF FRIEND LEUKEMIA INTEGRATION - 1(FLI-1) ANTIBODY AND OCCURRENCE OF TUMOR ON RARE SITES&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mittal</surname><given-names>Alka</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mehta</surname><given-names>Jayanti</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mangal</surname><given-names>Kalpana</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Jain</surname><given-names>Alpana</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Agarwal</surname><given-names>Neetu</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Solanki</surname><given-names>Madan Kumar</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>10</fpage><lpage>16</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Objective: Ewings sarcoma /Primitive neuroectodermal tumor (ES/PNET) is one of the aggressive malignant round cell tumors affecting mainly children and adolescents. This study aimed to emphasize the role of FLI-1 antibody along with CD99 in diagnosing ES/PNET and to keep this tumor in differential diagnosis even at some rare sites.&#13;
Material and Method: This descriptive and retrospective study was conducted from January 2014 __ampersandsignndash; May 2016 and included 58 patients of ES/PNET. Histopathological and IHC findings were reviewed and the diagnosis of ES/PNET was confirmed. The tumors were further categorized into classic Ewings, PNET and atypical subtypes. Panel of IHC markers included vimentin, CD99, FLI-1, PanCK, LCA, Desmin, Myogenin, NSE, Synaptophysin, S100 and Chromogranin.&#13;
Results: Clinical Findings- We studied 58 patients of ES / PNET of whom 63% (37/58) were males, 37% (21/58) were females. The age ranged between 3- 65 years (mean 20 years).&#13;
Histological Findings: 57% of cases (33/58) exhibited classic morphology, 40% (23/58) were classified as PNET. There were only two cases of atypical Ewings sarcoma including large cell and Clear cell variant.&#13;
Immunohistochemical Findings: Strong membranous CD99 expression was seen in 100%, FLI -1 nuclear staining in 85% , NSE in 50%, S100 in 30%, Synaptophysin in 10% and EMA in 2% (1/58) cases. All other markers included in the panel were negative.&#13;
Tumor on Rare Sites: 10 Cases were of primary extradural spinal PNET, 1 intramedullary spinal, 2 brain parenchyma, 2 nose and__ampersandsignnbsp;nasopharynx , and one rare case of urinary bladder.&#13;
Conclusion: Clinical details, histomorphology and IHC includingCD99 and monoclonal FLI-1antibodies may help in supporting diagnosis of EFT if cytogenetic and FISH techniques are not available at any centre.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Ewings sarcoma</kwd><kwd> Primitive neuroectodermal tumor</kwd><kwd> CD99</kwd><kwd> FLI-1v</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
