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Mesenchymal Tumors of the Uterus

1991; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-1-4613-9086-2_9

0178-0328

Martin Lefkowitz, Henry J. Norris,

Soft tissue tumor case studies

The uterus is formed from the paired müllerian ducts, the latter derived from mesenchyme at the eighth to ninth week of gestation. Mesenchyme has the capacity to form connective tissue or collagen, smooth and striated muscle, fat, cartilage, bone, and the epithelium lining the uterus and tubes. The potentiality of the uterine primordium is retained in the cells making up the adult uterus.1,2 As a result, some neoplasms that subsequently arise in the uterus express the high potentiality of their ancestry by forming a mixture of epithelial and mesodermal components. Given this derivation, numerous mixed overlapping tumor types are common, a feature evident microscopically and in the cross-reactivity of immunocytochemical reactions.