Kojima Yui, Tanabe Mikiko, Kato Ikuma, Motoi Toru, Kimura Mariko, Sawazumi Tomoe, Tanaka Reiko, Chiba Sawako, Otani Masako, Inayama Yoshiaki
Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
Department of Molecular Pathology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
Pathol Int. 2019 Mar;69(3):172-176. doi: 10.1111/pin.12765. Epub 2019 Feb 9.
Recently, a new entity "myoepithelioma-like tumor of the vulvar region (MELTVR)" was proposed as a rare mesenchymal neoplasm arising in vulvar regions of adult women. While MELTVRs morphologically resemble soft tissue myoepitheliomas and extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcomas, they have a unique immunohistochemical profile (positive for epithelial membrane antigen and estrogen receptor, negative for S100 protein and glial fibrillary acidic protein, and loss of INI1/SMARCB1 expression), and lack EWSR1 and NR4A3 gene rearrangement, as seen by fluorescence in situ hybridization. MELTVRs are usually well-demarcated tumors, with no reports of extensive infiltrative growth. In the current report, we present an unusual case of MELTVR showing infiltrative growth and harboring only a few estrogen receptor-positive cells, which might indicate a variation in this rare tumor.
最近,一种新的实体“外阴区域肌上皮瘤样肿瘤(MELTVR)”被提出,它是一种发生于成年女性外阴区域的罕见间叶性肿瘤。虽然MELTVR在形态上类似于软组织肌上皮瘤和骨外黏液样软骨肉瘤,但它们具有独特的免疫组织化学特征(上皮膜抗原和雌激素受体阳性,S100蛋白和胶质纤维酸性蛋白阴性,且INI1/SMARCB1表达缺失),并且通过荧光原位杂交显示缺乏EWSR1和NR4A3基因重排。MELTVR通常是边界清楚的肿瘤,尚无广泛浸润性生长的报道。在本报告中,我们展示了一例不寻常的MELTVR病例,其表现为浸润性生长且仅含有少数雌激素受体阳性细胞,这可能表明这种罕见肿瘤存在变异。