Translocations involving chromosomes 2 and 13 in benign and malignant cartilaginous neoplasms

Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 1989 Mar;38(1):83-8. doi: 10.1016/0165-4608(89)90168-4.

Abstract

Cytogenetic analysis of a chrondromyxoid fibroma of bone and an extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma revealed clonal chromosomal rearrangements involving chromosomes 2 and 13. The significance of these findings in these neoplasms of cartilaginous origin, one benign and one malignant, is discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bone Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Chondroma / genetics*
  • Chondrosarcoma / genetics*
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13*
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Translocation, Genetic*