Guimarães Lucinda Calheiros, Garcia Priscila Leandro, Castro João Badaró, Meneses Antonio Carlos Oliveira
Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM), Special Pathology Discipline. Uberaba, MG, Brazil.
Autops Case Rep. 2018 Sep 26;8(4):e2018041. doi: 10.4322/acr.2018.041. eCollection 2018 Oct-Dec.
High-grade endometrial carcinomas are aggressive neoplasms of difficult histological classification. Neuroendocrine differentiation in endometrial carcinomas is rare. This is the report of an endometrial large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma with foci of melanocytic differentiation in a 75-year-old woman with abnormal post-menopausal uterine bleeding for 2 years. Two initial biopsies were inconclusive. Histopathological examination of the uterus revealed large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma associated with endometrioid carcinoma and foci of melanocytic differentiation, pT3a (FIGO IIIA). There were metastases in the rectum serosa and lungs. After 8 months of diagnosis and surgical treatment, the patient is on chemotherapy and radiotherapy. We highlight the morphological characteristics and criteria that allow the definitive anatomopathological diagnosis, including immunohistochemical markers used to identify the cell types present in this unprecedented association.
高级别子宫内膜癌是具有侵袭性且组织学分类困难的肿瘤。子宫内膜癌中的神经内分泌分化罕见。本文报告了一名75岁女性,绝经后子宫异常出血2年,患有伴有黑素细胞分化灶的子宫内膜大细胞神经内分泌癌。最初的两次活检结果不明确。子宫的组织病理学检查显示为大细胞神经内分泌癌,伴有子宫内膜样癌和黑素细胞分化灶,pT3a(国际妇产科联盟IIIA期)。直肠浆膜和肺部有转移。在诊断和手术治疗8个月后,患者正在接受化疗和放疗。我们强调了有助于明确解剖病理学诊断的形态学特征和标准,包括用于识别这种前所未有的关联中存在的细胞类型的免疫组化标志物。