Abstract:
:This report describes the light (LM) and electron microscopic (EM) features and the results of an indirect immunofluorescence study (IF), the latter using monoclonal and monospecific antibodies to cytoskeletal proteins, of a malignant, invasive and metastatic breast myoepithelioma. A 53-year-old female underwent mastectomy for a large necrotic mammary tumor that had invaded the overlying skin. By LM, the neoplasm was composed of interlacing bundles of large, elongated and interspersed stellate cells with acidophilic cytoplasm. The neoplastic cells displayed a moderate degree of anaplasia, high mitotic activity, and strong tendency for necrosis. Stromal desmoplasia was marked, especially toward the center of the neoplasm. By IF, the tumor cells revealed bright cytoplasmic fluorescence with antibodies to actin, prekeratin, and cytokeratin. A few scattered spindle cells, which stained with the anti-vimentin and anti-actin anti-bodies, most likely represented stromal myofibroblasts. The anti-desmin reaction was negative. By EM, the neoplasm was composed of variably differentiated, elongated and stellate myoepithelial cells connected by desmosomes, enveloped by remnants of basal lamina, and containing pinocytotic vesicles, a well-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum, large Golgi areas, aggregates of intermediate filaments that were often arranged in dense curvilinear bundles (tonofilaments), and bundles of microfilaments with fusiform, dense bodies. The combined LM, EM, and IF study of this mammary tumor establishes its myoepithelial origin and, thus, identifies it as myoepithelial carcinoma distinct from other spindle cell breast tumors. This neoplasms was locally invasive and cytologically malignant; moreover, its malignancy was further confirmed by the development of lung and pleural metastases.
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Ultrastruct Patholjournal_title
Ultrastructural pathologyauthors
Schürch W,Potvin C,Seemayer TAdoi
10.3109/01913128509141504subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1985-01-01 00:00:00pages
1-11issue
1eissn
0191-3123issn
1521-0758journal_volume
8pub_type
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journal_title:Ultrastructural pathology
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1980-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:1996-03-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2018-03-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1988-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Ultrastructural pathology
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更新日期:1995-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Ultrastructural pathology
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1987-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1992-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Ultrastructural pathology
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更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Ultrastructural pathology
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更新日期:2005-03-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2000-03-01 00:00:00
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