Uterine Tumors with Neuroectodermal Differentiation. A Report of 4 Cases.

Abstract

We report four cases of uterine tumors with neuroectodermal differentiation. One tumor had neuroectodermal component only; in the three other tumors, the neuroectodermal component was admixed with another component, namely rhabdomyosarcoma (1 case), and endometrioid adenocarcinoma (2 cases).

Histological, immunohistochemical and FISH results are presented.

Keywords

• Uterine tumors
• PNET
• Ewing sarcoma
• EWSR1 gene
• Neuroectodermal
• of-the-literature
• ewings-sarcoma
• peripheral neuroepithelioma
• monoclonal-antibody
• uterus
• pnet
• carcinomas
• cd99