Uterine tumours

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This article deals with uterine tumours, excluding tumours that arise from the endometrium. Uterine tumours are like water in the sea - very very common. Many hysterectomies are done for 'em... the most common are leiomyomata (AKA fibroids).

Pre-malignant endometrium and endometrial tumours are dealt with in the articles, endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial carcinoma.

Leiomyomas

General

  • Often called "fibroids".
  • Extremely common... 40% of women by age 40.
  • Benign.
    • Can be a cause of AUB (abnormal uterine bleeding).
    • Large & multiple associated with infertility.

Variants

Gross

  • Sharply circumscribed.
  • Gray-white.
  • Whorled appearance.

Look for...

  • Haemorrhage.
  • Cystic degeneration.
  • Necrosis.

Microscopy

Look for ...

  • Necrosis (low power) -- suggestive of leiomyosarcoma.
  • Hypercellularity.

IHC

Work-up of suspicious leiomyomas:[2]

  • CD10 (+ve).
  • Ki-67 (-ve).
  • SMA (+ve).
  • Desmin (+ve).

Adenomatoid tumour

General

  • Grossly mimics leiomyoma.[3]
  • Benign tumour - derived from mesothelium.

Notes:

Microscopy

Features:[4]

  • Well-circumscribed lesion; however, not encapsulated.
  • Small tubulocystic spaces lined by cytologically normal mesothelium.

DDx:

  • Lymphangioma.
  • Leiomyoma.

IHC

Features:[5]

  • Calretin +ve.
  • AE1/AE3 +ve.
  • CD31 -ve.
  • CK7 +ve.[6]

Carcinosarcoma

  • AKA "malignant mixed muellerian tumour" (MMMT)
  • May have differentiation to:
    • Muscle,
    • Cartilage or
    • Bone.
  • Assoc. with previous radiation exposure.
  • Metstasize as adenocarcinoma.

Adenosarcoma

Features:[7]

  • Benign glands with an abnormal shape.

DDx:

  • Benign polyp.

Tx:

  • TAH + BSO.

Leiomyocarcoma

General

  • Poor prognosis.
  • Do not (generally) arise from leiomyomas.
  • Often singular, i.e. one tumour; unlike leiomyomas (which are often multiple).

Gross

  • "Fleshy" appearance.
  • Necrosis.
  • Large size.
  • Often singular, i.e. one lesion; leiomyomata are often multiple.

Microscopic

  1. Cellular atypia - common.
  2. Necrosis.
    • Should be patchy/multifocal.
    • Zonal necrosis is suggestive of vascular cause.
  3. Mitoses - key feature.
    • 10 mitoses/HPF.
    • 5 mitoses/HPF - if epithelioid.
    • 2 mitoses/HPF - if myxoid.

IHC

  • CD10 -ve.
  • Positive for SMC markers.
    • Desmin - present in all three types of muscle.
    • Caldesmon.
    • Smooth muscle myosin.

Smooth muscle tumour of uncertain malignant potential (STUMP)

General

  • Like PUNLMP and ASCUS - a waffle category... when one isn't sure it is a leiomyoma vs. leiomyosarcoma.
  • Clinical behaviour: usually benign.[8]
  • Can be subclassified into four groups - as per Stanford.

Management:

  • Long-term follow-up.[8]

Microscopic/IHC

Features associated with recurance:[8]

  • p16+, p53+, nuclear atypia.

Endometrial stromal tumours

Overview

WHO classification:[9]

  • Endometrial stromal nodule - not a tumour.
  • Endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS), low grade.
  • Undifferentiated endometrial sarcoma

Notes:

  • Some believe in a "high grade ESS"... some don't.[10]

Low grade endometrial stromal sarcoma

Microscopic

Features:

  • Highly cellular Islands with a wavy irregular border.
    • Border has finger-like projections/tongue-like projections.
    • Benign uterine smooth muscle between islands of tumour cells.
  • Epithelioid cells.
  • High NC ratio.
  • Thin blood vessels within islands of cells.
    • Tumour cells pallisade around the vessels.

Image(s):

Notes:

  • Vaguely resembles the stroma of proliferative endometrium.

Undifferentiated endometrial sarcoma

Features:

  1. Marked nuclear atypia.
  2. Mitoses+++.
  3. Poorly differentiated - key feature
    • Looks nothing like low grade endometrial stromal sarcoma.
    • Negative for smooth muscle markers (to exclude leiomyosarcoma).

Notes:

  • Need IHC to diagnose.

DDx:

  • Leiomyosarcoma.
  • Carcinosarcoma.
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma.
  • Melanoma.

Weird stuff

Uterine tumors resembling ovarian sex cord tumours (UTROSCT)

  • Look like sex cord tumour:[11]
    • May have: anastomosing cords, trabeculae, small nests and/or tubules.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119360394/abstract
  2. ↑ STC. 25 February 2009.
  3. ↑ Huang, CC.; Chang, DY.; Chen, CK.; Chou, YY.; Huang, SC. (Sep 1995). "Adenomatoid tumor of the female genital tract.". Int J Gynaecol Obstet 50 (3): 275-80. PMID 8543111.
  4. ↑ Nucci, Marisa R.; Oliva, Esther (2009). Gynecologic Pathology: A Volume in Foundations in Diagnostic Pathology Series (1st ed.). Churchill Livingstone. pp. 346. ISBN 978-0443069208.
  5. ↑ Canedo-Patzi, AM.; León-Bojorge, B.; de Ortíz-Hidalgo, C.. "[Adenomatoid tumor of the genital tract. Clinical, pathological and immunohistochemical study in 9 cases]". Gac Med Mex 142 (1): 59-66. PMID 16548294.
  6. ↑ LAE. 9 December 2009.
  7. ↑ Cotran, Ramzi S.; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Nelso Fausto; Robbins, Stanley L.; Abbas, Abul K. (2005). Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease (7th ed.). St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Saunders. pp. 1089. ISBN 0-7216-0187-1.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Ip PP, Cheung AN, Clement PB (July 2009). "Uterine smooth muscle tumors of uncertain malignant potential (STUMP): a clinicopathologic analysis of 16 cases". Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 33 (7): 992–1005. doi:10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181a02d1c. PMID 19417585.
  9. ↑ Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 426. ISBN 978-0781765275.
  10. ↑ Amant F, Vergote I, Moerman P (November 2004). "The classification of a uterine sarcoma as 'high-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma' should be abandoned". Gynecol. Oncol. 95 (2): 412–3; author reply 413. doi:10.1016/j.ygyno.2004.07.021. PMID 15491769. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WG6-4DF46J8-3&_user=1166899&_coverDate=11%2F01%2F2004&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1204975755&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000051839&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1166899&md5=d6ec1eee2941460a085d1dac6615b5a5.
  11. ↑ URL: http://www.nature.com/modpathol/journal/v19/n1/full/3800475a.html. Accessed on: 5 August 2010.
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