Mirzaian Elham, Tavangar Seyed Mohammad, Montazeri Sahar, Emami Yeganeh Farbod
Department of Pathology, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Pathology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Iran J Pathol. 2019 Summer;14(3):261-264. doi: 10.30699/ijp.2019.90673.1865. Epub 2019 Aug 1.
Synovial sarcomas are soft tissue neoplasms mostly located in the lower extremities of young adults. A case of synovial sarcoma of the thigh in a 35-year-old male with the predominant epithelial component is reported. Microscopically the tumor showed variable-sized well-differentiated glands lined by the cuboidal cells with small foci of spindle cell component between glandular structures. Immunohistochemically glandular components showed positivity for the pan CK and EMA while CD99 and TLE1 were positive in both glandular and spindle cell components. This type of synovial sarcoma could be indistinguishable from metastatic adenocarcinoma and malignant adnexal tumor, thus, immunohistochemistry and molecular studies play an essential role in the exact diagnosis of this type of tumor.
滑膜肉瘤是一种软组织肿瘤,主要位于年轻成年人的下肢。本文报道了一例35岁男性大腿部滑膜肉瘤,以上皮成分占主导。显微镜下,肿瘤表现为大小不一、分化良好的腺体,内衬立方细胞,腺结构之间有小灶性梭形细胞成分。免疫组化显示,腺成分对泛细胞角蛋白(pan CK)和上皮膜抗原(EMA)呈阳性,而CD99和TLE1在腺成分和梭形细胞成分中均呈阳性。这种类型的滑膜肉瘤可能与转移性腺癌和恶性附件肿瘤难以区分,因此,免疫组化和分子研究在这类肿瘤的准确诊断中起着至关重要的作用。