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REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE ENFERMEDADES DIGESTIVAS
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REV ESP ENFERM DIG (Madrid
Vol. 107, N.º 2, pp. 109-110, 2015
PICTURES IN DIGESTIVE PATHOLOGY
Duodenal Ewing’s sarcoma: Unusual location and atypical
EWRS-1 translocation
Ernesto Jesús Barzola-Navarro
1
, José Ángel Flores-García
1
, Diego López-Guerra
1
, Cristina Tejera-Pérez
2
,
Nerea Rodríguez-Díez
3
, Aurea Gómez-Durán
4
, Alejandro Rubio-Fernández
4
and Gerardo Blanco-Fernández
1
1
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Unit,
2
Endocrine Unit,
3
Digestive Unit, and
4
Pathology Unit.
Hospital Universitario de Badajoz. Badajoz, Spain
CASE REPORT
A 20-year-old woman was admitted, because 5 months before admission, she started having epigastric abdominal pain
and lost weight. On examination the patient was pale, had abdominal pain when deep palpation was applied.
In laboratory tests, a microcytic hypochromic anemia was found. Results of computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen
showed a rounded heterogeneous mass adjacent to the pancreas (Fig. 1).
An oral endoscopy revealed in the fourth duodenum portion a neoplastic appearance of an ulcer, where a biopsy was
taken (Fig. 2). The pathological and immunohistochemistry studies showed neoplastic cells positive for CD99, FLI-1 (friend
leukemia integration 1 transcription factor), and CD 117. With a suspected sarcoma, a molecular study of traslocation t (11;
22), (q24; q12) in the locus 22q12 of EWSR1 gene (Ewing sarcoma breakpoint region 1) was done (Fig. 3). These findings
were compatible with Ewing’s sarcoma (ES).
The surgery performed was cephalic pancreaticoduodenectomy (Fig. 4).
Fig. 1. Abdominal scan: Solid mass of 40 mm in diameter situated in the third
and fourth duodenum portion.
Fig. 2. Endoscopy: Ulcer of neoplastic appearance with thickened edges
and fibrin at the bottom.