If I am not mistaken, this beautifully illustrated case is a rare gonadoblastoma with possible overgrowing dysgerminoma. The clinical history is typical. Accoring to the Fifth Edition of "Haines and Taylor Obstetric and Gynecological Pathology", 80% of gonadoblastomas occur in phenotypic females and the remaining 20% occur in phenotypic male pseudohermaphrodites with cryptorchidism, hypospadias, ambiguous external genitalia and female internal secondary sex organs. Clinical presentations include amenorrhea, virilization, and abdominal distension. Grossly, pure gonadoblastomas are smaller, oval, somewhat lobulated, and vary from soft and fleshy to hard and fibrotic (many calcified). When overgrown by co-existing dysgerminoma or other types of germ cell tumor, the much larger tumor appear fleshy, hemorrhagic and even focally cystic. Microscopically, pure gonadoblastomas show cellular nests between fibrotic or cellular stroma. The cellular nests are variable in size and contain large germ cells (similar to dysgerminoma cells) admixed with sex-cord derivatives resembling immature Sertoli and granulosa cells. The former have large vesicular nuclei and often vacuolated cytoplasm, while the latter have smaller, oval to slightly elongated hyperchromatic nuclei. The Sertoli or granulosa cells may line the periphery of cellular nests, surround individual or small collections of germ cells, or surround Call-Exner-like bodies. The stroma may contain interstitial cells (Leydig cells or ovarian hilus cells) with or without luteinization.
If I am not mistaken, this beautifully illustrated case is a rare gonadoblastoma with possible overgrowing dysgerminoma. The clinical history is typical. Accoring to the Fifth Edition of "Haines and Taylor Obstetric and Gynecological Pathology", 80% of gonadoblastomas occur in phenotypic females and the remaining 20% occur in phenotypic male pseudohermaphrodites with cryptorchidism, hypospadias, ambiguous external genitalia and female internal secondary sex organs. Clinical presentations include amenorrhea, virilization, and abdominal distension. Grossly, pure gonadoblastomas are smaller, oval, somewhat lobulated, and vary from soft and fleshy to hard and fibrotic (many calcified). When overgrown by co-existing dysgerminoma or other types of germ cell tumor, the much larger tumor appear fleshy, hemorrhagic and even focally cystic. Microscopically, pure gonadoblastomas show cellular nests between fibrotic or cellular stroma. The cellular nests are variable in size and contain large germ cells (similar to dysgerminoma cells) admixed with sex-cord derivatives resembling immature Sertoli and granulosa cells. The former have large vesicular nuclei and often vacuolated cytoplasm, while the latter have smaller, oval to slightly elongated hyperchromatic nuclei. The Sertoli or granulosa cells may line the periphery of cellular nests, surround individual or small collections of germ cells, or surround Call-Exner-like bodies. The stroma may contain interstitial cells (Leydig cells or ovarian hilus cells) with or without luteinization.
contain large germ cells (similar to dysgerminoma cells) admixed with sex-cord derivatives resembling immature Sertoli and granulosa cells. The former have large vesicular nuclei and often vacuolated cytoplasm, while the latter have smaller, oval to slightly elongated hyperchromatic nuclei
contain large germ cells (similar to dysgerminoma cells) admixed with sex-cord derivatives resembling immature Sertoli and granulosa cells. The former have large vesicular nuclei and often vacuolated cytoplasm, while the latter have smaller, oval to slightly elongated hyperchromatic nuclei