Variant Pseudocystic Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor With Heterologous Mullerian Cysts
A desmoplastic small round cell tumor (DSRCT) presented in a 13-year-old female with an acute abdomen due to torsion of a fallopian tube cyst. She was found to have an incidental 2 cm pedunculated, solid, and multicystic mass attached to the pelvic floor on laparoscopy. The neoplasm had a variably myxoid and spindle cell pattern with nests and cords of small cells, forming pseudocysts, and true cysts lined by ciliated epithelium which were PAX-8+ and ER+/PR+. The tumor had the EWSR1::WT1 fusion. Numerous peritoneal nodules less than 1 cm were noted on repeat laparoscopy 3 months later. These had similar features including the ciliated epithelial cysts. Our case illustrates yet another potential variant pattern of DSRCT with Mullerian-like ciliated epithelial cysts.
Authors
- Maggie Fader (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2544-4703)
- Carole D. Brathwaite
- Louis P. Dehner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2007-5638)
- Farres Obeidin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8461-9238)
- Eric I. Nayman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9561-4931)
- Felipe E. Pedroso
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- Florida International University (US)
- Washington University Medical Center (US)
- Miami Children's Hospital (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Pediatric and Developmental Pathology
- Published
- 2025-01-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/10935266241312435
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.52