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Primary endometrial large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma with melanocytic differentiation

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 wo...

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Autores principales: Guimarães, Lucinda Calheiros, Garcia, Priscila Leandro, Castro, João Badaró, Meneses, Antonio Carlos Oliveira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: São Paulo, SP: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital Universitário 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30775319
http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2018.041
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Sumario: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.