title: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration diagnosis of metastatic sex cord tumor with annular tubules: a case report.
abstract: The cytologic findings of a paratracheal metastasis from a malignant sex cord tumor with annular tubules (SCTATs) diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration are described. Cytologic features of SCTATs include the presence of highly cellular aspirates forming simple and complex rosette-like structures around central rounded hyaline material, small nucleoli, and prominent nuclear grooves. These cytologic findings are clearly distinct from the poorly formed rosette-like structures of granulosa-cell tumors and are reminiscent of the low-power appearance of the cribriform variant of adenoid cystic carcinoma. The fine needle aspiration cytologic features of only two other cases have been previously described and, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first case reporting the cytologic diagnosis of a distant metastasis of a SCTATs by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration. In this case, the distinctive and characteristic cytologic features have allowed the proper diagnosis of a distant metastasis of SCTATs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
authors.forename: Lori J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: Stefan E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Pambuccian
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: H Evin
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Gulbahce
mesh_terms: D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D019160:Endosonography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D018312:Sex Cord-Gonadal Stromal Tumors / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary*