Brenner tumour

Brenner tumors are an uncommon subtype of the surface epithelial-stromal tumor group of ovarian neoplasms. The majority are benign, but some can be malignant.[1]

Brenner tumor
A Brenner tumor of ovary (gross image).
SpecialtyOncology

They are most frequently found incidentally on pelvic examination or at laparotomy.[2] Brenner tumours very rarely can occur in other locations, including the testes.[3]

Presentation

On gross pathological examination, they are solid, sharply circumscribed and pale yellow-tan in colour. 90% are unilateral (arising in one ovary, the other is unaffected). The tumours can vary in size from less than 1 centimetre (0.39 in) to 30 centimetres (12 in). Borderline and malignant Brenner tumours are possible but each are rare.

Diagnosis
Micrograph of a Brenner tumour. H&E stain.
High magnification micrograph of a Brenner tumour showing the characteristic coffee bean nuclei. H&E stain.

Histologically, there are nests of transitional epithelial (urothelial) cells with longitudinal nuclear grooves (coffee bean nuclei) lying in abundant fibrous stroma.

Also recall that the "coffee bean nuclei" are the nuclear grooves exceptionally pathognomonic to the sex cord stromal tumor, the ovarian granulosa cell tumor, with the fluid-filled spaces Call–Exner bodies between the granulosa cells.[4][5]

Similar conditions

Transitional cell carcinoma is an even rarer entity, in which neoplastic transitional epithelial cells similar to transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder are seen in the ovary, without the characteristic stromal/epithelial pattern of a Brenner tumour.

Histologically, Leydig cell tumors of the testes and ovarian stromal Leydig cell tumors (ovarian hyperandrogenism and virilization) both have characteristic Reinke crystals. The same crystals were also noted under high power view in Brenner tumors.[6]

Eponym

It is named for Fritz Brenner (1877–1969), a German surgeon who characterized it in 1907.[7] The term "Brenner tumor" was first used by Robert Meyer, in 1932.[8]

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References
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  3. Caccamo D, Socias M, Truchet C (1991). "Malignant Brenner tumor of the testis and epididymis". Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 115 (5): 524–7. PMID 2021324.
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  6. Kuno, Yoshika; Baba, Tsuyoshi; Kuroda, Takafumi; Teramoto, Mizue; Hirokawa, Naoki; Endo, Toshiaki; Saito, Tsuyoshi (2018-06-21). "Rare case of occult testosterone‐producing ovarian tumor that was diagnosed by selective venous hormone sampling". Reproductive Medicine and Biology. 17 (4): 504–508. doi:10.1002/rmb2.12213. ISSN 1445-5781. PMC 6194242. PMID 30377407.
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