UTERINE INVOLVEMENT BY INTRAABDOMINAL DESMOPLASTIC SMALL ROUND-CELL TUMOR IN A 63-YEAR-OLD FEMALE

A 63-year-old female with the newly described neoplasm ''intra-abdomin al desmoplastic small round cell tumor'' is presented. Clinically, the patient presented with hematuria for a period of 15 days, and multipl e, complex abdominopelvic tumor masses with uterine involvement were f ound. Diagnosis was based on pathologic examination of tissue specimen s obtained during exploratory laparotomy. In our patient, all the path ologic criteria for intra-abdominal desmoplastic small round cell tumo r were met, despite the patient's age. Similar to most patients with t his tumor, our patient survived for only four months following surgery . To our knowledge, this is the third case of intraabdominal desmoplas tic small round cell tumor described in a postmenopausal female.