1Anatomical Pathology Division, “Dr. Manuel Gea González” General Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico
2Pathology Unit, Mexico General Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico
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Case No. | Year | Author (country) |
Clinical data overview |
Histopathological finding | ||
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Landscape | Evdution and treatment | Follow-up | ||||
1 | 1978 | Starr et al. [2] (USA) | 26-Year-old woman (G2P1) | Normal delivery and immediate postpartum tubal ligation | Check-up every 3 months during a non-specified period | Interpretation as grade 1 primary adenocarcinoma of the Fallopian tube |
Total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy performed due to report of malignancy | No anomalies reported | |||||
2-5 | 1980 | Saffos et al. [1] (USA) | Four women between 27 to 33 years of age (multiparous; non-specified number of pregnancies) | Normal delivery and tubal ligation in every case | No evidence of disease in three patients after different times of evaluation (1 year 6 months, 2 years and 6 years postoperatively) | Original description of the tumour: oncocytic and mucinous epithelia |
Two patients had total abdominal hysterectomies with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomies because of uncertainty about the malignancy of the lesions | Mucinous component (intracytoplasmic vacuoles) reactive for mucicarmine stain | |||||
One patient had used oral contraceptives several years previously | ||||||
Only one mitosis noticed in one of the cases | ||||||
One of the cases was lost during follow-up | ||||||
6 | 1988 | Keeney and Thrasher [3] (USA) | 27-Year-old Mexican woman (G3P1A1) | Premature rupture of foetal membranes with subsequent caesarean delivery | Without disease after 4 years of follow-up | No gross abnormalities |
Description of a luminal acidophilic secretion mucicarmine-positive | ||||||
Hypothyroidism requiring L-tiroxine therapy | ||||||
Simultaneous tubal ligation | Recognition of only one tripolar mitosis | |||||
First ultrastructural description by means of transmission electron microscopy | ||||||
7 | 1989 | Bartnik et al. [4] (USA) | 23-Year-old woman (G3P2) | Vaginal delivery and tubal ligation (Pomeroy technique) | Postoperative recovery and discharge | Gross description of a pale-yellow mucoid material (extracellular mucin within the tubal lumen) |
Respiratory and urinary tract infections treated with ampicillin during the second and third trimesters | ||||||
No mitotic activity | ||||||
First description of the cell immunophenotype: CK (+) and EMA (+) | ||||||
Minimal chronic salpingitis observed in both tubes | ||||||
8 | 1999 | Pang [5] (Taiwan) | 52-Year-old non-pregnant Taiwanese woman (G5P3A2) | Laparoscopic resection of both Fallopian tubes | Non-available information | Tumour localized in the right salpinx |
Intracellular mucin reactive for PAS, alcian blue and mucicarmine stains | ||||||
Consumption of progesterone-only oral contraceptives when she was 26 years old | ||||||
Extracellular mucine present on the surface of some papillae | ||||||
Complaint of lower abdominal fullness | ||||||
Simultaneous finding of degenerated, partially calcified chorionic villi in both Fallopian tubes (bilateral ectopic pregnancies) | ||||||
Bilateral hydrosalpinx by ultrasonography | ||||||
9 | 2003 | Solomon et al. [6] (USA) | 26-Year-old woman (G5P3A1) | Labor induction at 39 weeks using oxytocin | No complaints after her 6-week postpartum visit | Involvement of the left Fallopian tube by an exophytic, papillary lesion mucicarmine (+), EMA (+) and CK AE1/AE3 (+) |
Last pregnancy conceived while using oral contraceptives | ||||||
Vaginal delivery and bilateral tubal ligation via Pomeroy procedure on postpartum day 1 | ||||||
Unexplained serum FP elevation during the 15th week of gestation | Associated chronic salpingitis and focal decidualization in the ipsilateral tube | |||||
10 | 2011 | DAdda et al. [7] (Italy) | 31-Year-old woman at her 40th week of gestation | Caesarean delivery due to podalic version | Non-available information | Microsatellital analysis of eight chromosomal regions involved in ovarian carcinogenesis: molecular profile probably similar to a subset of minimally altered low-grade borderline serous tumours |