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Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma Arising in a Fibrous Dysplasia Confirmed by GNAS Mutation Analysis: A Case Report

Okuda M, Kobayashi S, Gabata T, Yamamoto N, Nojima T

JBJS case connector, 2020

Abstract

CASE: We report the case of a 78-year-old woman with undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS) of the proximal femur arising in a previous site of fibrous dysplasia (i.e., a liposclerosing myxofibrous tumor) that had been treated 4 years earlier with curetted surgery. GNAS mutation was detected in both the previous benign lesion and the UPS.

CONCLUSION: Genetic analysis is useful in demonstrating the origin of the tumor especially in fibrous dysplasia with severe degeneration that have undergone malignant transformation.

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