Benign, borderline, and malignant endometrioid neoplasia arising in endometriosis in association with tamoxifen therapy

Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2000 Jul;19(3):276-9. doi: 10.1097/00004347-200007000-00013.

Abstract

Tamoxifen therapy may result in a variety of endometrial proliferative lesions, including adenocarcinoma, and as recently suggested, proliferative changes within endometriosis. This report describes an endometrioid adenocarcinoma arising in ovarian endometriosis in a patient taking tamoxifen. There were also foci of benign and borderline endometrioid adenofibroma in the same ovary and a synchronous endometrioid endometrial adenocarcinoma in the uterus. The spectrum of benign, borderline, and malignant endometrioid neoplasia arising within endometriosis suggests that tamoxifen, as a result of its estrogenic effects, may cause proliferative and, in rare instances, malignant changes in endometriosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / chemically induced*
  • Adenocarcinoma / pathology
  • Adenocarcinoma / surgery
  • Breast Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Carcinoma, Endometrioid / chemically induced*
  • Carcinoma, Endometrioid / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Endometrioid / surgery
  • Endometrial Neoplasms / chemically induced*
  • Endometrial Neoplasms / pathology
  • Endometriosis / pathology*
  • Estrogen Antagonists / adverse effects
  • Fallopian Tubes / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hysterectomy
  • Middle Aged
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / chemically induced*
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / pathology
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / surgery
  • Ovariectomy
  • Tamoxifen / adverse effects*

Substances

  • Estrogen Antagonists
  • Tamoxifen