Surgical Pathology Unit, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS, Padova, Italy.
Pathologica. 2023 Dec;115(6):333-340. doi: 10.32074/1591-951X-943.
Wilms tumor (WT), or nephroblastoma, is an uncommon malignant neoplasm occurring in the kidney of pediatric patients. Its extrarenal location is extremely rare and has been reported in various sites, including the female genital tract, with only 9 cases arising in the uterine corpus. We present the case of an adult woman who underwent total abdominal hysterectomy due to a uterine mass causing persistent abdominal pain. The characteristic triphasic morphology (composed of epithelial, stromal, and blastemal elements) supported by a broad immunohistochemical panel, along with the imaging exclusion of a renal neoplasm, was diagnostic of WT of the uterus. For the first time, a comprehensive genomic profiling of a uterine primary WT was also performed by next-generation sequencing, disclosing alterations at the level of copy number variations in the genes ERBB2, FGFR23, FGF6, FGFR2, and RPS6KB1. All previously reported uterine cases were reviewed, with a summary of their main clinicopathologic characteristics, and the main differential diagnoses are presented. Further reports are needed to improve our knowledge about prognostic factors, clinical behavior and molecular alterations that could guide appropriate therapeutic decision making.
威尔姆斯瘤(WT),又称肾母细胞瘤,是一种罕见的发生于小儿肾脏的恶性肿瘤。其肾脏外部位极为罕见,已在多个部位报道,包括女性生殖道,仅有 9 例发生于子宫体。我们报告了 1 例成年女性病例,因子宫肿块引起持续性腹痛而行全子宫切除术。广泛的免疫组织化学标志物支持的三相形态特征(由上皮、间质和原始细胞成分组成),结合影像学排除肾肿瘤,诊断为子宫 WT。首次通过下一代测序对原发性子宫 WT 进行了全面的基因组分析,揭示了 ERBB2、FGFR23、FGF6、FGFR2 和 RPS6KB1 基因水平的拷贝数变异改变。我们回顾了所有以前报道的子宫病例,总结了它们的主要临床病理特征,并提出了主要的鉴别诊断。需要进一步的报告来提高我们对预后因素、临床行为和分子改变的认识,这些改变可能有助于指导适当的治疗决策。