Uterine Tumors Resembling Ovarian Sex Cord Tumors: A Clinicopathologic Study of 75 Cases Emphasizing Features Predicting Adverse Outcome and Differential Diagnosis. 2023

Baris Boyraz, and Jaclyn C Watkins, and Robert H Young, and Esther Oliva
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Uterine tumors resembling ovarian sex cord tumors (UTROSCTs), first characterized by Drs Clement and Scully in 1976, are rare neoplasms showing clinical, morphologic, and immunohistochemical overlap with a number of other uterine tumors, most being mesenchymal. Criteria for aggressive behavior are not clearly established. We report 75 tumors from patients ranging from 21 to 84 (mean=52.4) years. Seventy-one patients were treated by hysterectomy and 4 by conservative total excision. Thirty-eight tumors were intramyometrial, 34 submucosal, and 3 cervical; they ranged from 0.6 to 20 (mean=4.9) cm and were typically tan-yellow. Sixty-eight neoplasms were well-circumscribed and 7 had infiltrative borders (4 only minimally). In 56 tumors, a smooth muscle component was intimately admixed with the neoplastic cells ("pseudoinfiltration"; extensive in 29). Architectural patterns included cords (n=53), diffuse (n=51), hollow tubules (n=48), nests (n=38), trabeculae (n=37), retiform (n=23), solid tubules (n=21), pseudoangiomatoid (n=11), pseudopapillary (n=4), and whorled (n=2); typically, more than 1 pattern was seen. Tumor cells were epithelioid (n=62), epithelioid and spindled (n=12), or spindled (n=1) and/or rhabdoid (n=20; extensive in 2). Cytologic atypia was absent to mild in 57, moderate in 16, and moderate to severe in 2 tumors. Fifty-seven UTROSCTs had ≤2mitoses/10 high power fields (HPF), 12 had 3 to 5/10 HPF, and 6 >5/10 HPF. Necrosis was present in 3 and lymphovascular invasion in 1. Tumor cells showed a polyphenotypic immunohistochemical profile (with positivity for sex cord, smooth muscle, and epithelial markers), most commonly inhibin (17/33+) and calretinin (22/31+) positive. Five of 58 patients with follow-up (22 to 192; mean=73.2 mo) had recurrences/metastases from 30 to 144 months, and 2 died of disease. Malignant tumors showed >3 of the following 5 features compared with benign tumors: size >5 cm, at least moderate cytologic atypia, ≥3 mitoses/10 HPF, infiltrative borders, and necrosis. One of the 5 malignant tumors showed an extensive rhabdoid morphology. UTROSCTs are uncommon, show a wide morphologic spectrum, often pose problems in differential diagnosis, and typically have a benign outcome. Rare tumors are associated with late recurrences and a combination of more than 3 of the 5 features listed above predicted aggressive behavior in this series.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009336 Necrosis The death of cells in an organ or tissue due to disease, injury or failure of the blood supply.
D010051 Ovarian Neoplasms Tumors or cancer of the OVARY. These neoplasms can be benign or malignant. They are classified according to the tissue of origin, such as the surface EPITHELIUM, the stromal endocrine cells, and the totipotent GERM CELLS. Cancer of Ovary,Ovarian Cancer,Cancer of the Ovary,Neoplasms, Ovarian,Ovary Cancer,Ovary Neoplasms,Cancer, Ovarian,Cancer, Ovary,Cancers, Ovarian,Cancers, Ovary,Neoplasm, Ovarian,Neoplasm, Ovary,Neoplasms, Ovary,Ovarian Cancers,Ovarian Neoplasm,Ovary Cancers,Ovary Neoplasm
D003937 Diagnosis, Differential Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures. Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014594 Uterine Neoplasms Tumors or cancer of the UTERUS. Cancer of Uterus,Uterine Cancer,Cancer of the Uterus,Neoplasms, Uterine,Neoplasms, Uterus,Uterus Cancer,Uterus Neoplasms,Cancer, Uterine,Cancer, Uterus,Cancers, Uterine,Cancers, Uterus,Neoplasm, Uterine,Neoplasm, Uterus,Uterine Cancers,Uterine Neoplasm,Uterus Cancers,Uterus Neoplasm
D018312 Sex Cord-Gonadal Stromal Tumors Neoplasms derived from the primitive sex cord or gonadal stromal cells of the embryonic GONADS. They are classified by their presumed histogenesis and differentiation. From the sex cord, there are SERTOLI CELL TUMOR and GRANULOSA CELL TUMOR; from the gonadal stroma, LEYDIG CELL TUMOR and THECOMA. These tumors may be identified in either the OVARY or the TESTIS. Gynandroblastoma,Sex Cord-Stromal Tumor,Gynandroblastomas,Sex Cord Stromal Tumor,Sex Cord-Stromal Tumors,Tumor, Sex Cord-Stromal,Tumors, Sex Cord-Stromal

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