title: Adenoid basal carcinoma of the uterine cervix: a case report with ultrastructural findings.
abstract: Adenoid basal carcinoma of the uterine cervix is a rare tumor with a favorable prognosis. A case of adenoid basal carcinoma (ABC) of the uterine cervix was studied using light and electron microscopy. The patient was a 74-year-old Japanese woman who had undergone hysterectomy due to cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 3. Incidentally, ABC was found in the resected uterus. The tumor cells made small nests and infiltrated the cervical portion of the uterus. In the nests, glands, cribriform patterns with glandlike structures, and squamous differentiation were seen. Immunohistochemically, the glandlike structures were positive for laminin and type IV collagen. Ultrastructurally, the tumor cells had irregular nuclei, scanty cytoplasm, and cribriform patterns in which glandlike structures were covered with basal lamina. No myoepithelial differentiation of the tumor cells was seen. These findings suggest a similarity between adenoid basal carcinomas and adenoid cystic carcinomas. Furthermore, both tumors are considered to originate in the reserve cells of the uterine cervix. Because their outcomes are different, they should be distinguished from each other.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Pathology, Kochi Medical School, Kohasu, Okoh-Cho, Nankoku City, Kochi 783-8505, Japan. hiroim@kochi-ms.ac.jp
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hiroi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukunaga
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Miyazaki
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kuroda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Toi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Naruse
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kiyoku
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Enzan
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D003528:Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000648:ultrastructure*