Malignant clear-cell myomelanocytic tumor of broad ligament - A case report

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 448, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 867-870

  Kim, Hyun Jung ^a   Lim, Sung Jig ^a   Choi, Hoon ^a   Park, Kyeongmee ^a  

^a Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Broad ligament; Clear cell myomelanocytic tumor; PEComa

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BROAD LIGAMENT; CASE REPORT; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CLEAR CELL MYOMELANOCYTIC TUMOR; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ILIAC BONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MELANOSOME; NECROSIS; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ACTINS; ADENOCARCINOMA, CLEAR CELL; BROAD LIGAMENT; CHILD; EPITHELIOID CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOSOMES; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33744750557     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-006-0161-1     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Adachi S, Hanada M, Kobayashi Y, Tsutahara K, Fukuhara S, Mori N, Hara T, Mukai H, Shimasaku E, Kawai M, Kishikawa N, Yamaguchi S (2004) Heavily melanotic perivascular epithelioid clear cell tumor of the kidney. Pathol Int 54:261-265
2. Bonetti F, Martignoni G, Colato C, Manfrin E, Gambacorta M, Faleri M, Bacchi C, Sin VC, Wong NL, Coady M, Cahn JK (2001) Abdominopelvic sarcoma of perivascular epithelioid cells: report of four cases in young women, one with tuberous sclerosis. Mod Pathol 14:563-568
3. Bonetti F, Pea M, Martignoni G, Zamboni G (1992) PEC and sugar [Letter]. Am J Surg Pathol 16:307-308
4. Cibas ES, Goss GA, Kulke MH et al (2001) Malignant epithelioid angiomyolipoma ('sarcoma ex angiolipoma') of the kidney: a case report and review of the literature. Am J Surg Pathol 25:121-126
5. Fadare O, Parkash V, Yilmaz Y, Mariappan MR, Ma L, Hileeto D, Qumsiyeh MB, Hui P (2004) Perivascular epitelioid cell tumor (PEComa) of the uterine cervix associated with intraabdominal "PEComatosis": a clinicopathological study with comparative genomic hybridization analysis. World J Surg Onc 2:35-47
6. Fink D, Marsden DE, Edwards L, Camaris C, Hacker NF (2004) Malignant perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa) arising in the broad ligament. Int J Gynecol Cancer 14:1036-1039
7. Folpe AL, Goodman ZD, Ishak KG et al (2000) Clear cell myomelanocytic tumor of the falciform ligament/ligamentum teres: a novel member of perivascular epithelioid clear cell family of tumors with a predilection for children and young adults. Am J Surg Pathol 24:1239-1246
8. Ruco LP, Pilozzi E, Weddard BM et al (1998) Epithelioid lymphagioleiomyomatosis-like tumor of the uterus in a patient without tuberous sclerosis: a lesion mimicking epithelioid leiomyosarcoma. Histopathology 33:91-93
9. Pea M, Martignoni G, Zamboni G et al (1996) Peivascular epithelioid cell [Letter]. Am J Surg Pathol 20:185-188
10. Vang R, Kempson R (2002) Perivascular epithelioid cell tumor ('PECom') of the uterus: a subset of HMB-45 positive epithelioid mesenchymal neoplasms with an uncertain relationship to pure smooth muscle tumors. Am J Surg Pathol 26:1-13