Malignant mesotheliomas presenting as ovarian masses: A report of nine cases, including two primary ovarian mesotheliomas

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1067-1080

  Clement, Philip B ^a,d   Young, Robert H ^b,c   Scully, Robert E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mesothelioma; Ovary; Peritoneum

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESOTHELIOMA; METASTASIS; OVARY TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0029797981     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199609000-00004     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Addis BJ, Fox H. Papillary mesothelioma of ovary. Histopathology 1983;7:287-98.
2. Aguirre P, Thor AD, Scully RE. Ovarian endometrioid carcinomas resembling sex cord-stromal tumors. An immunohistochemical study. Int J Gynecol Pathol 1989;8:364-73.
3. Antman KH, Klegar KL, Pomfret EA, et al. Early peritoneal mesothelioma: a treatable malignancy. Lancet 1985;2:977-81.
4. Asensio JA, Goldblatt P, Thomford NR. Primary malignant peritoneal mesothelioma. A report of seven cases and a review of the literature. Arch Surg 1990;125:1477-81.
5. Bollinger DJ, Wick MR, Dehner LP, Mills SE, Swanson PE, Clarke RE. Peritoneal malignant mesothelioma versus serous papillary adenocarcinoma. A histochemical and immunohistochemical comparison. Am J Surg Pathol 1989;13: 659-70.
6. Brenner J, Sordillo PP, Magill GB. Seventeen year survival in a patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma. Clin Oncol 1981;7:249-51.
7. Clement PB, Young RH. Florid mesothelial hyperplasia associated with ovarian tumors: a potential source of error in tumor diagnosis and staging. Int J Gynecol Pathol 1993;12: 51-8.
8. Daya D, McCaughey WTE. Well-differentiated papillary mesothelioma of the peritoneum: a clinicopathologic study of 22 cases. Cancer 1990;65:292-6.
9. Evans H, Yates WA, Palmer WE, Cartwright RL, Antemann RW. Clear cell carcinoma of the sigmoid mesocolon: A tumor of the secondary mullerian system. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1990;162:161-3.
10. Foyle A, Al-Jabi M, McCaughey WTE. Papillary peritoneal tumors in women. Am J Surg Pathol 1981;5:241-9.
11. Geary WA, Mills SE, Frierson HF, Pope TL. Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma in childhood with long-term survival. Am J Clin Pathol 1991;95:493-8.
12. Gilks B, Hegedus C, Freeman H, Fratkin L, Churg A. Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma after remote abdominal radiation. Cancer 1988;61:2019-121.
13. Goldblum J, Hart WR. Localized and diffuse mesotheliomas of the genital tract and peritoneum in women. A clinicpathological study of nineteen true mesothelial neoplasms, other than adenomatoid tumors, multicystic mesotheliomas and localized fibrous tumors. Am J Surg Pathol 1995;19:1124-37.
14. Hitti IF, Glasberg SS, Lubicz S. Clear cell carcinoma arising in extraovarian endometriosis: report of three cases and review of the literature. Gynecol Oncol 1990;39:314-20.
15. Jones DEC, Silver D. Peritoneal mesotheliomas. Surgery 1979;86:556-60.
16. Kane MJ, Chahinian AP, Holland JF. Malignant mesothelioma in young adults. Cancer 1990;65:1449-55.
17. Kannerstein M, Churg J. Peritoneal mesothelioma. Hum Pathol 1977;8:83-94.
18. Kannerstein M, Churg J, McCaughey WTE, Hill DP. Papillary tumors of the peritoneum in women: mesothelioma or papillary carcinoma. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1977;127:306-14.
19. Kitazawa M, Kaneko H, Toshima M, Ishikawa H, Kobayashi H, Sekiya M. Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma with massive foamy cells. Codfish Roe-like mesothelioma. Acta Pathol Jpn 1984;34:687-92.
20. Lee KR, Verma U, Belinson J. Primary clear cell carcinoma of the peritoneum. Gynecol Oncol 1991;41:259-62.
21. MacDougall DB, Wang SE, Zidar BL. Mucin-positive epithelial mesothelioma. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1992;116:874-80.
22. McCaughey WTE, Al Jabi M. Differentiation of serosal hyperplasia and neoplasia in biopsies. Pathol Annu 1986;21: 271-93.
23. McCaughey WTE, Colby TV, Battifora H, et al. Diagnosis of diffuse malignant mesothelioma: Experience of a US/ Canadian mesothelioma panel. Mod Pathol 1991;4:342-53.
24. Nascimento AG, Keeney GL, Fletcher CDM. Deciduoid peritoneal mesothelioma. An unusual phenotype affecting young females. Am J Surg Pathol 1994;18:439-45.
25. Norman PE, Whitaker D. Nine-year survival in a case of untreated peritoneal mesothelioma. Med J Aust 1989;150: 43-4.
26. Parmley TH, Woodruff JD. The ovarian mesothelioma. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1974;120:234-40.
27. Peterson JT, Greenberg SD, Buffler PA. Non-asbestos related malignant mesothelioma. A review. Cancer 1984;54: 951-60.
28. Piccigallo E, Jeffers LJ, Reddy R, et al. Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma. A clinical and laparoscopic study of 10 cases. Dig Dis Sci 1988;33:633-9.
29. Plaus WJ. Peritoneal mesothelioma. Arch Surg 1988;123: 763-6.
30. Rogoff EE, Hilaris BS, Huvos AG. Long-term survival in patients with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma treated with irradiation. Cancer 1973;32:656-64.
31. Sheibani K, Esteban JM, Bailey A, Battifora H, Weiss LM. Immunopathologic and molecular studies as an aid to the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma. Hum Pathol 1992;23: 107-16.
32. Silva EG. Case presentation at Surgical Pathology Specialty Conference. United States-Canadian Division of the International Academy of Pathology, 1993.
33. Talerman A, Montero JR, Chilcote RR, Okagaki T. Diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma in a 13-year-old girl. Report of a case and review of the literature. Am J Surg Pathol 1985;9:73-80.
34. Weiss LM, Battifora H. The search for the optimal immunohistochemical panel for the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma [Editorial]. Hum Pathol 1993;24:345-6.
35. Young RH, Scully RE. Ovarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors with a retiform pattern: a problem in histopathologic diagnosis. A report of 25 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 1983;7:755-71.
36. Young RH, Gersell DJ, Clement PB, Scully RE. Hepatocellular carcinoma metastatic to the ovary: a report of three cases discovered during life with discussion of the differential diagnosis of hepatoid tumors of the ovary. Hum Pathol 1992;23:574-80.
37. Young RH, Scully RE. Metastatic tumors in the ovary: a problem-oriented approach and review of the literature. Semin Diagn Pathol 1991;8:250-76.