Large cell calcifying Sertoli cell tumor of the testis: comparative immunohistochemical study with Leydig cell tumor

Pathol Int. 2005 Jun;55(6):366-71. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2005.01838.x.

Abstract

Large cell calcifying Sertoli cell tumor is a rare type of testicular tumor. Reported herein is a Japanese patient with this tumor not associated with Carney's complex. An 11-year-old boy was admitted to hospital because of left testicular enlargement, and radical orchiectomy was performed. Macroscopically, the tumor was well circumscribed and had a maximum diameter of approximately 2 cm. The cut surface showed a yellow-white solid mass. Histologically, the tumor was composed of large neoplastic cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm with a tubular, trabecular, and solid arrangement and loose myxoid stroma with irregularly shaped calcification. Immunohistochemically, the tumor cells were positive for vimentin, S-100 protein, calretinin, inhibin-alpha, melan-A, and CD10, and type IV collagen and laminin were observed in the extracellular matrix around the tumor cells. The distributions of melan-A, CD10, and mitochondria were characteristically patchy; in contrast, they were diffusely distributed in the cytoplasm in a control case of Leydig cell tumor. The differences in immunostaining patterns for melan-A, CD10, and mitochondria as well as positivity for S-100 protein-beta might be useful diagnostic hallmarks of large cell calcifying Sertoli cell tumor for discrimination from Leydig cell tumor.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Antigens, Neoplasm
  • Calbindin 2
  • Calcinosis / pathology*
  • Child
  • Collagen Type V / analysis
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Inhibins / analysis
  • MART-1 Antigen
  • Male
  • Microscopy, Electron
  • Neoplasm Proteins / analysis
  • Neprilysin / analysis
  • S100 Calcium Binding Protein G / analysis
  • S100 Proteins / analysis
  • Sertoli Cell Tumor / metabolism
  • Sertoli Cell Tumor / pathology*
  • Testicular Neoplasms / metabolism
  • Testicular Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Testis / chemistry
  • Testis / pathology
  • Testis / ultrastructure
  • Vimentin / analysis

Substances

  • Antigens, Neoplasm
  • CALB2 protein, human
  • Calbindin 2
  • Collagen Type V
  • MART-1 Antigen
  • MLANA protein, human
  • Neoplasm Proteins
  • S100 Calcium Binding Protein G
  • S100 Proteins
  • Vimentin
  • inhibin-alpha subunit
  • Inhibins
  • Neprilysin