Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor with an Unusual Site and Age Presentation: A Case Report and Literature Review

Review Data

The rare case report presents a 32-old-year man with palpable axillary mass and multiple bilateral lung nodules, which showed nests of small round cells and desmoplastic stroma. This case strongly illustrates the importance of recognizing the morphologic features of rare desmoplastic small round cell tumor malignancy which shows an atypical presentation that can often be misinterpreted as poorly differentiated carcinoma and lead to inappropriate treatment.  

 

The discussion clearly elaborates on the manner in which the patient was diagnosed and briefly explains the relevant literature. Overall, the case report is well written and is suitable for the journal Surgical Case Reports (SCR).

 

There are only a few minor errors (already corrected in galley proof). These are:

 

·       In abstract, 5^th sentence and in discussion, 2^nd paragraph, 1^st sentence, “possible breast primary” must be rewritten as “possible primary breast cancer”.

·       Some determiners such as “an”, “the” are missing in certain places, like in introduction, 1^st paragraph, 4^th sentence, “occurrence” must be written as “an occurrence”; 2^nd paragraph, 1^st sentence, “abundant” must be written as “the abundant”.

·       In discussion, 3^rd paragraph, 1^st sentence, “DSRCT” must be “DSRCT was” and there is overuse of article in certain places like, “a diagnosis” will be “diagnosis”, “a histologic” will be “histologic”.

In case presentation, 5^th paragraph, 9^th sentence, “a EWSR1” must be written as “an EWSR1”, and 6^th paragraph, 3^rd line, “on” must be replaced with “in”.

Author Info

Moon Joo Kim Renee K Eng Ahmed N Shehabeldin Yimin Ge Mary R Schwartz Yun Wu Jae Y Ro

Corresponding Author

Jae Y Ro
Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Houston, Texas, USA

Article Info

Article Type

Case Report and Review of the Literature

Publication history

Received: Mon 20, Jul 2020
Accepted: Sat 01, Aug 2020
Published: Thu 27, Aug 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Jae Y Ro. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.08.11