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Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2018 Jun 20; 6(6):1091-1094. 1091
ID Design Press, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences. 2018 Jun 20; 6(6):1091-1094.
https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2018.239
eISSN: 1857-9655
Case Report
Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma Arising in Adenomyoma in a
Woman with a Genital Prolapse - Case Report
Vesna S. Antovska
1
, Iskra Krstevska
1
, Milka Trajanova
1
, Jasmina Chelebieva
1*
, Irena Gosheva
1
, Pance Zdravkovski
2
,
Slavica Kostadinova-Kunovska
2
, Vesna Janevska
2
1
University Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department for Urogynaecology and Pelvic Floor Disorders, Ss Cyril and
Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia;
2
Institute of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and
Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Citation: Antovska VS, Krstevska I, Trajanova M,
Chelebieva J, Gosheva I, Zdravkovski P, Kostadinova-
Kunovska S, Janevska V. Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma
Arising in Adenomyoma in a Woman with a Genital
Prolapse-Case Report. Open Access Maced J Med Sci.
2018 Jun 20; 6(6):1091-1094.
https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2018.239
Keywords: Endometrial cancer; Uterine leiomyoma;
Genital prolapse
*Correspondence: Jasmina Chelebieva. University
Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department for
Urogynaecology and Pelvic Floor Disorders, Skopje,
Republic of Macedonia. E-mail:
jasmina_medicine2006@hotmail.com
Received: 14-May-2018; Revised: 23-May-2018;
Accepted: 30-May-2018; Online first: 14-Jun-2018
Copyright: © 2018 Vesna S. Antovska, Iskra Krstevska,
Milka Trajanova, Jasmina Chelebieva, Irena Gosheva,
Pance Zdravkovski, Slavica Kostadinova-Kunovska,
Vesna Janevska. This is an open-access article
distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC
BY-NC 4.0)
Funding: This research did not receive any financial
support
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no
competing interests exist
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Endometrial cancer is the third-ranked genital malignancy in women and includes 3% of cancer
deaths. There is a 2.8% chance of a woman developing endometrial cancer during her lifetime. Low-grade
endometrioid adenocarcinomas are often seen along with endometrial hyperplasia, but high-grade endometrioid
adenocarcinomas have more solid sheets of less-differentiated tumour cells, which are no longer organised into
glands, often associated with surrounded atrophic endometrium.
CASE REPORT: We present an unusual case of endometrial adenocarcinoma arising in adenomyoma in 74-year
old woman presented with genital prolapse, without other clinical symptoms. Ultrasound evaluation revealed
endometrium with 4 mm-thickness and atrophic ovaries. The cervical smear was normal. The patient underwent a
total vaginal hysterectomy. The histopathology of the anterior uterine wall revealed an intramural adenomyoma of
4 mm in which some endometrial glands with malignant transformation of well-differentiated endometrioid
adenocarcinoma without infiltration in surrounding myometrium and lymphovascular invasion were present. The
endometrium lining the uterine cavity was predominantly atrophic, and only one focus of simplex and complex
hyperplasia was found, with cell-atypia. According to AJCC/FIGO 2010, the tumour was classified: pTNM = pT1B
pNX pMX G1 R0 L0 V0 NG1, Stage I. On dismiss, the near-future oncological consultation was recommended.
CONCLUSION: We would like to point out the rare occurrence of such type of malignancy and the importance of
meticulous histopathology evaluation, even after reconstructive surgery for genital prolapse.
Introduction
Endometrial cancer is the third-ranked genital
malignancy in women after cervical and ovarian
cancer and accounted for 3% of all cancer deaths in
women. Endometrial adenocarcinoma occurs mostly
in the postmenopausal age. There is a 2.8% chance
of a woman developing endometrial cancer during her
lifetime.
The cancer cells in endometrioid
adenocarcinoma grow in patterns evocative of normal
endometrium, with new glands arising from columnar
epithelium with some abnormal nuclei. Low-grade
endometrioid adenocarcinomas are often seen along
with endometrial hyperplasia and most often do not
invade the myometrium. Higher-grade endometrioid
adenocarcinomas are characterised with less well-
differentiated cells and have more solid sheets of
tumour cells no longer organised into glands, and are
associated with an atrophied endometrium. Smooth
muscle tumors of the uterus consist of a broad family
of tumors.
Leiomyomas are the most common
gynaecological neoplasm. In this case, we had an
unusual case of endometrial adenocarcinoma arising
in adenomyoma. Leiomyoma combined with focal
adenocarcinoma of the endometrium is the only rare
published article found after the persistent search for
the same.