Female genital tract transitional cell proliferations
Definition
Various epithelial proliferations of the female genital tract resemble urothelial neoplasms. Immunohistochemistry indicates that benign Brenner tumours show true urothelial differentiation. Other tumours show less definite evidence of urothelial differentiation.
weak | strong | weak | strong | weak | strong | |||
Benign Brenner | 11/251 | 11/251 | 6/251 | 18/251 | 4/251 | 21/251 | ||
Mature Brenner with a benign Brenner proliferation | 0/11 | 0/11 | 1/11 | 1/11 | ||||
Ovarian Walthard nest | 1/21 | 1/21 | 2/21 | 1/21 | 1/21 | |||
Tubal Walthard nest | 0/171 | 0/171 | 11/171 | 4/171 | 4/171 | 13/171 | ||
Proliferating Brenner tumour | 1/21 | 2/21 | 2/21 | |||||
Malignant Brenner tumour | 1/11 | 0/11 | 0/11 | 1/11 | ||||
Transitional cell carcinoma | 2/121 | 3/121 | 1/121 | 4/121 | 2/121 | |||