Synovial sarcoma in children

Abstract

T received little attention, and knowledge concerning them is exceedingly scant. One of us (A.P.S.) is engaged in a comprehnsive study of them, and the present paper deals with what information we could obtain from the files of the Laboratory of Surgical Pathology of Columbia University, New York, N.Y., and from published reports concerning synovial sarcomas in children. It is desirable to do this because children differ from adults in many ways, and one can feel no assurance that tumors with comparable histological. structure will behave in the same way in children as they do in adults. Synovial sarcoma is an uncommon tumor form and especially rare in children from birth through 15 years of age. This can be appreciated from the fact that the records of both the Babies Hospital, New York, N.Y., and the New York Orthopedic Hospital, New York, N.Y., contain only 1 example each in their records. There are 95 cases of synovial sarcoma recorded in our Laboratory of Surgical Pathology during a period of 52 years. Only 10 (9.5%) of these are known to have made their first appearance in children. During this same period 2,128 tumors in children were recorded. Of these, 851 were