Pathologists should be aware of the existence of diagnostically useful
chromosomal rearrangements in several soft tissue and bone tumors. Th
ey include rearrangement of 8q12 in lipoblastomas, ring chromosomes in
atypical lipomas, ring and giant marker chromosomes in well different
iated liposarcomas, t(12;16)(q13;p11) in myxoid liposarcomas, rearrang
ement of 7p21-22 in low-grade endometrial stromal sarcomas, t(2;13)(q3
7;q14) in alveolar rhabdomyosarcomas, t(X;18)(p11.2;q11.2) in synovial
sarcomas, t(12;22) (q13;q13) in clear cell sarcomas, t(11;22)(q24;q12
) in Ewing's sarcomas and peripheral neuroepitheliomas, and t(9;22)(q2
1-31;q11-12) in extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcomas.