Novel GOPC(FIG)-ROS1 fusion in a pediatric high-grade glioma survivor

J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2017 Jul;20(1):51-55. doi: 10.3171/2017.2.PEDS16679. Epub 2017 Apr 7.

Abstract

Pediatric high-grade glioma is a rare tumor characterized by high mortality. The authors report the first case of a high-grade glioma associated with a GOPC(FIG)-ROS1 fusion in a pediatric patient. The patient underwent gross-total resection at the age of 4 years, followed by adjuvant high-dose chemotherapy and autologous hematopoietic stem cell rescue. At 30 months after transplantation, she remains disease free.

Keywords: 6q22 deletion; CNS = central nervous system; FFPE = formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded; GOPC; ROS1; RT-PCR = reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction; RTK = receptor tyrosine kinase; oncology; receptor protein-tyrosine kinases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain / surgery
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Carrier Proteins / genetics*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Glioma / diagnostic imaging
  • Glioma / genetics*
  • Glioma / pathology
  • Glioma / surgery*
  • Golgi Matrix Proteins
  • Humans
  • Membrane Proteins / genetics*
  • Membrane Transport Proteins
  • Neoplasm Grading
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / genetics*
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins / genetics*
  • Sequence Deletion
  • Survivors

Substances

  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
  • Carrier Proteins
  • GOPC protein, human
  • Golgi Matrix Proteins
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Membrane Transport Proteins
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
  • ROS1 protein, human