title: [Mesenchymal uterine tumors. Stromal tumors and other rare mesenchymal neoplasms].
abstract: Uterine stromal neoplasms are classified into endometrial stromal nodules and stromal sarcomas, as well as undifferentiated sarcomas. The two former groups demonstrate identical histological composition, consisting of small monomorphous cells with scant cytoplasm and round nuclei and typically contain numerous arteriolar-type vessels. Stromal tumors are distinct from stromal nodules by virtue of their myometrial and vascular invasion. Undifferentiated sarcomas consist of polymorphic cells and lack any cytological similarity to the stroma of normal proliferative endometrium. There is no smooth or striated muscle differentiation. Adenosarcomas are mixed neoplasms with a low grade stromal sarcoma component containing benign glands, which are surrounded by condensed neoplastic stroma. Typical uterine tumors resembling ovarian sex cord tumors (UTROSCT Type2) show predominant sex cord differentiation in a well circumscribed nodule. Focal sex cord differentiation may occur in stromal nodules and stromal sarcomas (UTROSCT Type2).
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pathologie des Landeskrankenhauses Graz West, Graz, Osterreich. sigurd.lax@medunigraz.at
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lax
mesh_terms: D001160:Arterioles / Q000473:pathology; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000473:pathology; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D036821:Endometrial Stromal Tumors / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000473:pathology; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000473:pathology; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000473:pathology; D018312:Sex Cord-Gonadal Stromal Tumors / Q000473:pathology; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology*; D014599:Uterus / Q000473:pathology