Park Heae Surng
Department of Pathology, Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
J Pathol Transl Med. 2021 Jul;55(4):298-302. doi: 10.4132/jptm.2021.04.23. Epub 2021 Jun 1.
A sarcomatoid variant of urothelial carcinoma in the female urethral diverticulum has not been reported previously. A 66-year-old woman suffering from dysuria presented with a huge urethral mass invading the urinary bladder and vagina. Histopathological examination of the resected specimen revealed predominantly undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma with sclerosis. Only a small portion of conventional urothelial carcinoma was identified around the urethral diverticulum, which contained glandular epithelium and villous adenoma. The patient showed rapid systemic recurrence and resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy despite high expression of programmed cell death ligand-1. We report the first case of urethral diverticular carcinoma with sarcomatoid features.
女性尿道憩室尿路上皮癌的肉瘤样变体此前尚未见报道。一名66岁患有排尿困难的女性出现巨大尿道肿物,侵犯膀胱和阴道。切除标本的组织病理学检查显示主要为伴有硬化的未分化多形性肉瘤。仅在尿道憩室周围发现一小部分传统尿路上皮癌,其中包含腺上皮和绒毛状腺瘤。尽管程序性细胞死亡配体-1高表达,但该患者仍出现快速的全身复发且对免疫检查点抑制剂治疗耐药。我们报告首例具有肉瘤样特征的尿道憩室癌。