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A Pediatric Primary Cardiac Spindle Cell Neoplasm With a Rare PDGFRA::USP8 Gene Fusion: A Case Report.

Ariel GershonAnita NagyGino R SomersShi-Joon YooFurqan ShaikhOsami HonjoRobert SiddawayHaiying Chen
Published in: Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society (2024)
We report a case of a primary cardiac spindle cell neoplasm with concerning histological features and a rare PDGFRA::USP8 gene fusion in a 3 year old boy. The patient presented with a large cardiac mass predominantly in the right ventricle, originating from the ventricular septum. The mass was resected with grossly negative margins. Pathology revealed an unclassified spindle cell neoplasm with a PDGFRA::USP8 gene fusion. This gene fusion has only been previously reported twice in the medical literature, one in a pediatric cardiac sarcoma and the other in an abdominal soft tissue tumor in an adult woman. The patient is alive and well with no evidence of recurrence 11 months after excision.
Keyphrases
  • left ventricular
  • single cell
  • genome wide
  • copy number
  • cell therapy
  • low grade
  • genome wide identification
  • soft tissue
  • systematic review
  • stem cells
  • dna methylation
  • pulmonary artery
  • high grade
  • prognostic factors