IMR Press / EJGO / Volume 38 / Issue 6 / DOI: 10.12892/ejgo3669.2017

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Case Report
Ovarian serous cystadenofibroma with concomitant sex cord-stromal elements: a case of a relatively common ovarian tumor with an unusual related minor component
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1 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2 Department of Pathology, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Eur. J. Gynaecol. Oncol. 2017, 38(6), 960–962; https://doi.org/10.12892/ejgo3669.2017
Published: 10 December 2017
Abstract

Benign ovarian serous tumors are lesions comprised of benign tubal type epithelium and varying proportions of stromal and cystic components. In rare instances, benign ovarian serous tumors can also contain a minor component of sex cord-stromal elements. The authors describe the case of a 59-year-old postmenopausal woman presenting with a right ovarian mass, that upon resection and examination of permanent sections, was appreciated to predominately be a serous cystadenofibroma. Additionally, there were cords and focal sheets of sex cord-stromal elements, that by immunohistochemical staining, were positive for calretinin and inhibin. The histomorphologic and immunophenotypical features supported that the ovarian tumor was a serous cystadenofibroma with sex cord-stromal elements: this being the second description in the literature to date. While there is a paucity of prognostic data on benign ovarian serous tumors with sex cord-stromal elements, the benign histologic features suggest a favorable outcome for patients, as one would expect with any surgically resected counterpart lesion devoid of sex cord-stromal elements.
Keywords
Ovary
Serous cystadenofibroma
Sex cord-stromal elements
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