Mesothelioma Injury Publication - Malignant Deciduoid

This is an abstract of a Mesothelioma injury article published at PubMed by the NIH rergarding malignant deciduoid mesothelioma.

Malignant Deciduoid Mesothelioma: a Diagnostic Challenge

Mourra N, de Chaisemartin C, Goubin-Versini I, Parc R, Flejou JF.
Department of Pathology, Hopital St-Antoine, Paris, France. najat.mourra@sat.ap-hop-paris.fr
Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2005 Mar;129(3):403-6.

Malignant deciduoid mesothelioma, a rare phenotype of epithelioid mesothelioma, arises more commonly from the peritoneum of young women, but it is also reported in the pleura of elderly people. We report a case of malignant deciduoid mesothelioma that occurred in a 41-year-old woman after cesarean section and was initially misdiagnosed as pseudotumoral deciduosis. Microscopically, the tumor was entirely composed of deciduoid areas, and only scattered tumor cells were positive for calretinin and keratin 5/6. The patient died 14 months after the first operation. This observation confirms the poor prognosis of this entity and the importance of the differential diagnosis of pseudotumoral deciduosis.

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