Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CONTRIBUTORS
- PREFACE
- Chap 1 OVERVIEW OF SOFT TISSUE TUMORS
- Chap 2 RADIOLOGIC EVALUATION OF SOFT TISSUE TUMORS
- Chap 3 IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY OF SOFT TISSUE TUMORS
- Chap 4 GENETICS OF SOFT TISSUE TUMORS
- Chap 5 MOLECULAR GENETICS OF SOFT TISSUE TUMORS
- Chap 6 FIBROBLAST BIOLOGY, FASCIITIS, RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS, AND KELOIDS
- Chap 7 FIBROMAS AND BENIGN FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMAS
- Chap 8 FIBROMATOSES
- Chap 9 BENIGN FIBROBLASTIC AND MYOFIBROBLASTIC PROLIFERATIONS IN CHILDREN
- Chap 10 CHILDHOOD FIBROBLASTIC AND MYOFIBROBLASTIC PROLIFERATIONS OF VARIABLE BIOLOGIC POTENTIAL
- Chap 11 MYXOMAS AND OSSIFYING FIBROMYXOID TUMOR
- Chap 12 SOLITARY FIBROUS TUMOR, HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA, AND RELATED TUMORS
- Chap 13 FIBROBLASTIC AND MYOFIBROBLASTIC NEOPLASMS WITH MALIGNANT POTENTIAL
- Chap 14 LIPOMA VARIANTS AND CONDITIONS SIMULATING LIPOMATOUS TUMORS
- Chap 15 ATYPICAL LIPOMATOUS TUMOR AND LIPOSARCOMAS
- Chap 16 SMOOTH MUSCLE TUMORS
- Chap 17 GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR
- Chap 18 STROMAL TUMORS AND TUMOR-LIKE LESIONS OF THE FEMALE GENITAL TRACT
- Chap 19 ANGIOMYOLIPOMA AND RELATED TUMORS (PERIVASCULAR EPITHELIOID CELL TUMORS)
- Chap 20 RHABDOMYOMAS AND RHABDOMYOSARCOMAS
- Chap 21 HEMANGIOMAS, LYMPHANGIOMAS, AND REACTIVE VASCULAR PROLIFERATIONS
- Chap 22 HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMAS, ANGIOSARCOMAS, AND KAPOSI'S SARCOMA
- Chap 23 GLOMUS TUMOR, SINONASAL HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA, AND MYOPERICYTOMA
- Chap 24 NERVE SHEATH TUMORS
- Chap 25 NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS: MELANOCYTIC, GLIAL, AND MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS
- Chap 26 PARAGANGLIOMAS
- Chap 27 PRIMARY SOFT TISSUE TUMORS WITH EPITHELIAL DIFFERENTIATION
- Chap 28 MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA AND OTHER MESOTHELIAL PROLIFERATIONS
- Chap 29 MERKEL CELL CARCINOMA AND METASTATIC AND SARCOMATOID CARCINOMAS INVOLVING SOFT TISSUE
- Chap 30 CARTILAGE- AND BONE-FORMING TUMORS AND TUMOR-LIKE LESIONS
- Chap 31 SMALL ROUND CELL TUMORS
- Chap 32 ALVEOLAR SOFT PART SARCOMA
- Chap 33 PATHOLOGY OF SYNOVIA AND TENDONS
- Chap 34 MISCELLANEOUS TUMOR-LIKE LESIONS, AND HISTIOCYTIC AND FOREIGN BODY REACTIONS
- Chap 35 LYMPHOID, MYELOID, HISTIOCYTIC, AND DENDRITIC CELL PROLIFERATIONS IN SOFT TISSUES
- Chap 36 CYTOLOGY OF SOFT TISSUE LESIONS
- Chap 37 SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA: HISTOLOGIC TYPE AND GRADE GUIDE SURGICAL PLANNING AND INTEGRATION OF MULTIMODALITY THERAPY
- Chap 38 MEDICAL ONCOLOGY OF SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS
- Index
- References
Chap 18 - STROMAL TUMORS AND TUMOR-LIKE LESIONS OF THE FEMALE GENITAL TRACT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CONTRIBUTORS
- PREFACE
- Chap 1 OVERVIEW OF SOFT TISSUE TUMORS
- Chap 2 RADIOLOGIC EVALUATION OF SOFT TISSUE TUMORS
- Chap 3 IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY OF SOFT TISSUE TUMORS
- Chap 4 GENETICS OF SOFT TISSUE TUMORS
- Chap 5 MOLECULAR GENETICS OF SOFT TISSUE TUMORS
- Chap 6 FIBROBLAST BIOLOGY, FASCIITIS, RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS, AND KELOIDS
- Chap 7 FIBROMAS AND BENIGN FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMAS
- Chap 8 FIBROMATOSES
- Chap 9 BENIGN FIBROBLASTIC AND MYOFIBROBLASTIC PROLIFERATIONS IN CHILDREN
- Chap 10 CHILDHOOD FIBROBLASTIC AND MYOFIBROBLASTIC PROLIFERATIONS OF VARIABLE BIOLOGIC POTENTIAL
- Chap 11 MYXOMAS AND OSSIFYING FIBROMYXOID TUMOR
- Chap 12 SOLITARY FIBROUS TUMOR, HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA, AND RELATED TUMORS
- Chap 13 FIBROBLASTIC AND MYOFIBROBLASTIC NEOPLASMS WITH MALIGNANT POTENTIAL
- Chap 14 LIPOMA VARIANTS AND CONDITIONS SIMULATING LIPOMATOUS TUMORS
- Chap 15 ATYPICAL LIPOMATOUS TUMOR AND LIPOSARCOMAS
- Chap 16 SMOOTH MUSCLE TUMORS
- Chap 17 GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR
- Chap 18 STROMAL TUMORS AND TUMOR-LIKE LESIONS OF THE FEMALE GENITAL TRACT
- Chap 19 ANGIOMYOLIPOMA AND RELATED TUMORS (PERIVASCULAR EPITHELIOID CELL TUMORS)
- Chap 20 RHABDOMYOMAS AND RHABDOMYOSARCOMAS
- Chap 21 HEMANGIOMAS, LYMPHANGIOMAS, AND REACTIVE VASCULAR PROLIFERATIONS
- Chap 22 HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMAS, ANGIOSARCOMAS, AND KAPOSI'S SARCOMA
- Chap 23 GLOMUS TUMOR, SINONASAL HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA, AND MYOPERICYTOMA
- Chap 24 NERVE SHEATH TUMORS
- Chap 25 NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS: MELANOCYTIC, GLIAL, AND MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS
- Chap 26 PARAGANGLIOMAS
- Chap 27 PRIMARY SOFT TISSUE TUMORS WITH EPITHELIAL DIFFERENTIATION
- Chap 28 MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA AND OTHER MESOTHELIAL PROLIFERATIONS
- Chap 29 MERKEL CELL CARCINOMA AND METASTATIC AND SARCOMATOID CARCINOMAS INVOLVING SOFT TISSUE
- Chap 30 CARTILAGE- AND BONE-FORMING TUMORS AND TUMOR-LIKE LESIONS
- Chap 31 SMALL ROUND CELL TUMORS
- Chap 32 ALVEOLAR SOFT PART SARCOMA
- Chap 33 PATHOLOGY OF SYNOVIA AND TENDONS
- Chap 34 MISCELLANEOUS TUMOR-LIKE LESIONS, AND HISTIOCYTIC AND FOREIGN BODY REACTIONS
- Chap 35 LYMPHOID, MYELOID, HISTIOCYTIC, AND DENDRITIC CELL PROLIFERATIONS IN SOFT TISSUES
- Chap 36 CYTOLOGY OF SOFT TISSUE LESIONS
- Chap 37 SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA: HISTOLOGIC TYPE AND GRADE GUIDE SURGICAL PLANNING AND INTEGRATION OF MULTIMODALITY THERAPY
- Chap 38 MEDICAL ONCOLOGY OF SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter is devoted to specific mesenchymal tumors of the vulva, vagina, and adjacent soft tissues, and common to most of them is their origin in the hormonally responsive stromal elements, as illustrated by their general estrogen and progesterone receptor positivity. A wide range of other mesenchymal tumors also occurs in this region, but these tumors are not related to the specific stromal tissues and more commonly occur elsewhere in the body. These tumors are discussed in the appropriate chapters. Smooth muscle tumors of the uterus and other female genitalia are included in Chapter 16.
Although most entities in this chapter are specific to women, cellular angiofibroma occurs in women and men. Tumors reported as aggressive angiomyoxomas in male patients belong mostly to other entities, especially cellular angiofibroma.
Sarcomas that are usually primary tumors in the uterus, such as endometrial stromal sarcoma and malignant mixed müllerian tumor (carcinosarcoma), sometimes arise outside of the genitalia in the pelvis or other abdominal locations. These tumors can also metastasize almost anywhere in the abdominal cavity and sometimes outside it, especially the lungs. Among such tumors is also granulosa cell tumor of the ovary, which can recur after long periods and sometimes simulate an intraabdominal mesenchymal tumor. The specific recognition of genital stromal tumors is important because some of them respond to hormonal or antihormonal treatment.
MESODERMAL STROMAL POLYP (PSEUDOSARCOMATOUS STROMAL POLYP)
These polyps vary from those with bland cytology to those that are highly cellular and even pseudosarcomatous, with atypia and mitotic activity.
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- Modern Soft Tissue PathologyTumors and Non-Neoplastic Conditions, pp. 508 - 530Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010