Abstract

Brenner tumors are uncommon ovarian neoplasms, most of which are benign, although borderline and malignant variants occur. We report 2 unusual ovarian neoplasms composed of an admixture of typical benign Brenner tumor and a low-grade epithelial neoplasm which we designate as low-grade basaloid carcinoma. The latter component morphologically and immunohistochemically resembled "salivary gland-type/myoepithelial" neoplasms with variable positive staining with cytokeratins, p63, S100, and CD117. One tumor exhibited aggressive behavior with local recurrence and distant metastasis. This neoplasm exhibited focal "high-grade" transformation with diffuse mutation-type p53 staining, in contrast to the wild-type immunoreactivity in the low-grade component. As far as we are aware, such neoplasms have not previously been reported in the literature and this represents a newly described morphologic variant of malignant Brenner tumor.

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