Mature teratoma of the uterine cervix with pulmonary differentiation

Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1995 Sep;119(9):848-50.

Abstract

Teratomas of the uterus are very rare, and a uterine teratoma with pulmonary differentiation has not, to our knowledge, been described previously. In this article, we report such a case in a 33-year-old woman, who presented with heavy vaginal bleeding and a polypoid mass of the uterine cervix. The cervical lesion was composed entirely of mature lung tissue, including bronchial, bronchiolar, and alveolar structures. The presence of well-differentiated respiratory epithelial cells, ie, Clara cells and alveolar type II cells, is confirmed by immunohistochemistry. The patient had no history of dilatation and curettage; therefore, implantation of fetal tissue could be excluded from the differential diagnoses. Since this is a newly developed mass in an adult individual, we favor a neoplastic process over heterotopia and interpret the lesion as unilateral lung development in an extragonadal mature teratoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Lung*
  • Teratoma / pathology*
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / pathology*