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soft tissue aneurysmal bone cyst

Synospsis

- Rx: oblong density in the soft tissue consistent with hemorrhage or calcification
- underlying bone unremarkable
- numerous hemorrhagic cysts

Differential diagnosis

- myositis ossificans

Cytogenetics

- t(5;17)(q33;p13) (#17378626#)

  • USP6 rearrangement at 17p13 breakpoint

See also

- giant-cell reparative granuloma

References

- Ellison DA, Sawyer JR, Parham DM. Soft-Tissue Aneurysmal Bone Cyst: Report of a Case with t(5;17)(q33;p13).Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2007 Jan-Feb;10(1):46-9. PMID: #17378626#

- Nielsen GP, Fletcher CD, Smith MA, Rybak L, Rosenberg AE. Soft tissue aneurysmal bone cyst: a clinicopathologic study of five cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 2002 Jan;26(1):64-9. PMID: #11756770#

- Michal M. Extraosseous aneurysmal cyst. Am J Surg Pathol. 1995 Sep;19(9):1095-6. PMID: #7661285#

- Rodriguez-Peralto JL, Lopez-Barea F, Sanchez-Herrera S, Atienza M. Primary aneurysmal cyst of soft tissues (extraosseous aneurysmal cyst). Am J Surg Pathol. 1994 Jun;18(6):632-6. PMID: #8179078#