WELL-DIFFERENTIATED PULMONARY NEUROENDOCRINE CARCINOMA METASTATIC TO THE ENDOMETRIUM - A CASE-REPORT

The female genital tract is an infrequent site of metastasis, particul arly for extragenital primaries, The ovary and vagina are the sites wi thin the female genital tract that are the most frequently affected. T he uterine corpus, especially the endometrium, is a distinctly unusual site of involvement. primary lung cancer is the source of metastatic tumor to the female genital tract in less than 5% of patients, in the reported instances of endometrial involvement by a primary lung cancer adenocarcinoma has been the reported subtype. Here, we report a case of well-differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung metastatic to the endometrium in a 68-year-old woman with postmenopausal bleedin g. Immunohistochemical studies were performed to confirm the neuroendo crine nature of the neoplasm.