Abstract
Chondrosarcomas are among the most malignant skeletal tumors. Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma is a highly aggressive subtype of chondrosarcoma, with lung metastases developing within a few months of diagnosis in 90 of patients. In this paper we performed comparative analyses of the transcriptomes of five individual metastatic lung lesions that were surgically resected from a patient with dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma. We document for the first time a high heterogeneity of gene expression profiles among the individual lung metastases. Moreover, we reveal a signature of multifunctional genes that are expressed in all metastatic lung lesions. Also, for the first time, we document the occurrence of massive macrophage infiltration in dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma lung metastases.
Original language | English (US) |
---|---|
Article number | 820254 |
Journal | Sarcoma |
Volume | 2012 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2012 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Oncology
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging