Fine-needle aspiration cytology of low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma of the renal capsule (capsuloma)

We report on the fine‐needle aspiration (FNA) findings of a low‐grade fibromyxoid sarcoma arising from the renal capsule in a 70‐yr‐old male. Cytologic examination revealed a spindle‐cell and myxoid lesion characterized by microtissue fragments of delicate spindle‐shaped cells and thin‐walled capillary‐type channels enmeshed in metachromatically staining myxoid material, best appreciated in Diff‐Quik‐stained smears. The spindle cells had slightly elongated, bland, oval to tapered nuclei. Based on the FNA diagnosis, the renal mass was resected, which revealed a hypocellular to moderately cellular, spindle‐shaped neoplasm showing alternating hypercellular fibrous foci with hypocellular myxoid areas arranged in a swirling growth pattern, characteristic of low‐grade fibromyxoid sarcoma. We believe that this is the first report of a low‐grade fibromyxoid sarcoma arising in the renal capsule (capsuloma), as well as the first capsuloma diagnosed by FNA biopsy. Differential diagnoses of other sarcomas arising from the kidney and nearby retroperitoneal region are discussed, as well as other entities that might enter into the differential diagnosis of this low‐grade sarcoma. Diagn. Cytopathol. 2000;23:279–283. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.