A Case of Mucinous Cystadenoma with Sarcoma-Like Mural Nodule.

Won, Hyung Jae; Lee, Yoon Ho; Cha, Dong Hyun; Kim, Jong Hwa; Park, Byung Ju

Case Report

Korean Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 2001;44(8):1562-1564.
Published online August 1, 2001.

A Case of Mucinous Cystadenoma with Sarcoma-Like Mural Nodule.

Hyung Jae Won, Yoon Ho Lee, Dong Hyun Cha, Jong Hwa Kim, Byung Ju Park

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Mural nodules in mucinous ovarian tumors are very rare. Since Prat and Scully first described sarcomatous and sarcoma-like mural nodules within mucinous ovarian tumors in 1979, only about 30 cases have been reported in the literature. Pathologically, mural nodules have three different types; i.e. 1) sarcoma-like mural nodule, 2) sarcomatous mural nodule, 3) anaplastic carcinomatous mural nodule. It is important to distinguish sarcoma-like mural nodule from another two type. because the former in the mucinous ovarian tumor has more favorable prognosis than the latter. We report a case of mucinous cystadenoma with sarcoma-like mural nodules in a 23-year-old nulliparous woman.

Key Words: Sarcoma-like mural nodule, Mucinous cystadenoma, Ovary