Endometrial adenocarcinoma with coexisting adenomatoid tumor of the uterus.
BACKGROUND
Uterine adenomatoid tumors may be present in up to 1% of hysterectomy specimens, and their infiltrative pattern may simulate that of adenocarcinomas.


METHODS
This is a report on the coexistence of a uterine adenomatoid tumor and an endometrial adenocarcinoma, both chance findings in a 41-year-old woman undergoing hysterectomy because of a preoperative diagnosis of metrorrhagia due to leiomyomas.


CONCLUSIONS
Although uterine adenomatoid tumors are believed to be rare, they may pose a differential diagnostic problem in the pathologic staging of endometrial carcinomas, because they form gland-like lumina and infiltrate the myometrium. To our knowledge, no previous coexistence of these two tumors has been reported.
Cserni
Gábor
G
Department of Pathology, Bács-Kiskun County Teaching Hospital, Nyíri út 38, H-6000 Kecskemét, Hungary. cserni@freemail.hu
Kocsis
Lajos
L
Pusztai
Zoltán
Z
Godó
György
G
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D018254:Adenomatoid Tumor / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D008796:Metrorrhagia / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery