Sandbox: Bone DDx

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  • 10-20 yo males
  • Extreme bone pain
  • Intermittent fever
  • Localized tenderness and swelling
  • Anemia and leukocytosis
  • Increased sedimentation rate
  • Destructive bone lesions
  • "Onion-skin" periosteal reaction


  • Sheets of round, uniform, PAS +ve, small cells with a scant clear cytoplasm
  • Round nuclei with indentations
  • Homer-Wright rosettes
  • Necrosis and hemorrhage
  • Prominent vasculature and variable mitotic figures
  • EWS/FLI-1 fusion gene
  • t(11;22)(q24;q12)
  • CD99 +ve
  • FLI-1 +ve