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Signet Ring Cells (signet + ring_cell)

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  • signet ring cell carcinoma
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    Selected Abstracts

    Prostate mucinous adenocarcinoma with signet ring cell

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, Issue 4 2003
    EYUP GUMUS
    Abstract Prostate mucinous adenocarcinoma with signet ring cell is a rare neoplasm with only 11 cases reported to date. We present the 12th case of prostate mucinous adenocarcinoma with signet ring cell. The case was detected incidentally as a result of a biopsy taken from a lesion in the prostatic urethra during a urethrocystoscopy of a 47-year-old male patient who underwent an internal urethrotomy operation due to urethrostenosis. Endoscopic examination showed a loose, spongy, gray,white structure covering the prostatic urethra, especially the right lobe of the prostate. The diagnosis resulting from the pathological examination of the biopsy was prostate mucinous adenocarcinoma with signet ring cell. A total of 50 Gy radiotherapy was applied to the patient. In the 27th month of follow-up after treatment, thoracoabdominal computed tomography, bone scintigraphy, and tumor markers (PSA, CEA and CA19-9) were found to be normal. [source]

    Apocrine carcinoma of the vulva in a band-like arrangement with inflammatory and telangiectatic metastasis via local lymphatic channels

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, Issue 1 2003
    Takahiro Kiyohara MD
    Background Primary adenocarcinomas of the vulva have been classified as sweat gland carcinomas, extramammary Paget's disease, and primary breast carcinomas of the vulva. They share some common histopathologic features. Methods We describe a 72-year-old Japanese woman with apocrine carcinoma of the vulva and local lymphatic metastasis. Results The patient presented with a bruise on her inguinal area. Physical examination revealed a 4 cm × 7 cm, dark-red, irregularly elevated tumor on the left labium majora. Dome-shaped, flesh-colored, small papulovesicles were scattered on the abdomen, accompanied by erythema and induration. The lesion showed a band-like arrangement. General examination revealed multiple bone metastases, particularly in the spine. Microscopic examination revealed a moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma with signet ring cells. A few pagetoid clear cells were present in the hypertrophic epidermis. The peripheral papulovesicles demonstrated the same histopathologic view as in inflammatory and telangiectatic, metastatic breast carcinoma. Tumor cells were positive for various ductal and glandular markers. Estrogen and progesterone receptors were not expressed. Ultrastructural findings suggested differentiation towards apocrine or mammary glands because of the presence of an apocrine process and electron-dense mucous granules. The patient died in spite of combination chemotherapy and irradiation therapy. Conclusions We report a rare case of apocrine carcinoma of the vulva in a band-like arrangement with local lymphatic metastasis which showed the clinical and histopathologic characteristics of inflammatory and telangiectatic carcinoma. [source]

    Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy resulting from metastatic signet ring cell carcinoma of the stomach

    PATHOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, Issue 6 2007
    Naomi Sakashita
    Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy is an unusual malignancy-related respiratory complication characterized by multiple microthrombi and intimal myofibroblast proliferation. Its clinical manifestation is subacute respiratory failure with pulmonary hypertension. Herein is reported a case of pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy associated with gastric signet ring cell carcinoma. A 51-year-old woman with gastric cancer died of subacute respiratory failure. Autopsy showed gastric signet ring cell carcinoma with diffuse metastasis of pulmonary lymphatics and pleurae; every organ examined lacked a space-occupying tumor mass. Histologically, proliferated intimal myofibroblasts obliterated most of the pulmonary vascular lumen, and a few stenosed vascular lumina contained cancer cells. In addition, pulmonary vasculature associated with intimal proliferation contained microthrombi. Most cancer cells in the stomach and pulmonary lymphatics were typical signet ring cells, whereas those in vascular lesions were cells of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma without mucous production. Consistent with a previous report, the latter expressed vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and tissue factor (TF). The proliferated intimal myofibroblasts also expressed type 2A serotonin receptor (5-HT2A). These findings suggest that local expression of VEGF, TF, and 5-HT2A may be linked to the pathogenesis of this unusual pulmonary complication. [source]

    Presence of a Micropapillary Pattern in Mucinous Carcinomas of the Breast and its Impact on the Clinical Behavior

    THE BREAST JOURNAL, Issue 5 2008
    Tanuja Shet MD
    Abstract:, Infiltrating micropapillary carcinomas (IMPC) of breast are highly angioinvasive tumors with poor prognosis. This study is based on the observation that a similar micropapillary pattern is also observed in mucinous carcinomas of breast. About 102 mucinous carcinomas were evaluated for the presence and impact of this micropapillary pattern on the clinical behavior. Of these, 68 were mucinous carcinomas with a micropapillary pattern (MUMPC), 20 had MUMPC mixed with an infiltrating duct carcinoma component, two were solid variants of papillary carcinoma with mucin (SVPCMU), five had collision of the MUMPC and SVPCMU patterns and seven were mucinous carcinomas with signet ring cells (MUS). The factors negatively affecting overall survival (OAS) and disease-free survival (DFS) included the histological type of mucinous carcinoma, nodal metastases, an irregular tumor border, <50% mucin and an IMPC type of local recurrence or metastases. In the multivariate analysis, the histologic type of mucinous carcinoma and an irregular tumor border were most significant for OAS and DFS. Thus, 86% of mucinous carcinomas in this study were mucinous variants of the angioinvasive infiltrating micropapillary carcinomas. These tumors can produce IMPC type of metastases and thus should be treated aggressively. [source]