Table 1 Summary of published cases of deciduoid mesothelioma

From: Deciduoid mesothelioma: report of 21 cases with review of the literature

Author(s)	Sex/age	Asbestos exposure	Location	Type of specimen	Histology	Treatment	Follow-up (months)
Talerman et al²	F/13	No	Peritoneum	Peritoneal biopsies	Undifferentiated polygonal cells arranged in a sheet-like pattern. High mitotic activity present, including atypical forms	Chemotherapy	DOD (8)
Nacimento et al¹	F/23	No	Peritoneum	Peritoneal biopsies	Deciduoid	INA	DOD (4)
	F/24	No	Peritoneum	Peritoneal biopsies	Deciduoid	INA	INA
Orosz et al³	F/15	No	Peritoneum	Peritoneal biopsy	Large polygonal or ovoid cells arranged in solid sheets or trabeculae. Binucleated cells present. Ten to 15 mitoses per 10 HPF, including atypical	Chemotherapy + radiotherapy	DOD (11)
Shanks et al⁴	M/59	No	Paratesticular, spermatic cord	Orchiectomy, autopsy	Deciduoid with occasional tubulopapillary or acinar areas	Orchiectomy + chemotherapy	DOD (4)
	F/53	Yes	Peritoneum	Peritoneal biopsies	Deciduoid	Symptomatic	DOD (9)
	M/65	Yes	Peritoneum	Biopsy + autopsy	Deciduoid	Tumor resection	DOD (4)
	M/55	Yes	Peritoneum	Tumor resection	Deciduoid with tubular and sarcomatoid areas. Multi-nucleated cells and mitoses, including atypical	Tumor debulking	AWD (60)
	F/55	No	Peritoneum	Peritoneal biopsies	Predominantly tubulopapillary with focal sarcomatoid areas and scattered small groups of deciduoid cells	Hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-ooforectomy	DOD (4)
	M/52	Yes	Pleura	Pleural biopsies	Deciduoid with tubulopapillary areas	Symptomatic	AWD (8)
Ordóñez⁵	F/46	No	Pleura	Pneumonectomy	Large polygonal or ovoid cells arranged in sheets or trabeculae. Three to five mitoses per 10 HPF	Pneumonectomy	DOD (6)
	M/64	Yes	Pleura	Pneumonectomy	Sheets of large cells with abundant dense cytoplasm. Two to four mitoses per 10 HPF	Chemotherapy + pneumonectomy	DOD (8)
	M/60	No	Pleura	Pneumonectomy	Solid sheets of large cells with dense eosinophilic cytoplasm and deciduoid features. Mitotic figures were not uncommon	Pneumonectomy + radiation	DOD (5)
	M/78	Yes	Pleura	Pleural fluid	Large polygonal cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm	INA	INA
Gloeckner-Hofmann et al⁶	F/40	No	Pleura	Pleural biopsy + tumor resection	Deciduoid	Chemotherapy	DOD
Puttagunta et al⁷	M/41	No	Pleura	Pleural biopsy	Deciduoid with rhabdoid change	Radiotherapy	DOD (21)
Desai et al⁸	F/53	INA	Peritoneum	Tumor resection	Giant cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm and sharp borders. Nuclear pleomorphism with hyperchromasia and prominent nucleoli	Debulking + hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy	INA
Gillespie et al⁹	F/50	No	Peritoneum	Peritoneal fluid	Deciduoid cells, some binucleated or multi-nucleated. An occasional mitosis was seen	Chemotherapy	AWD (12)
Henley et al¹⁰	F/30	No	Pleura	INA	Deciduoid with vacuolated Clear areas. Three mitoses per 10 HPF	Surgical resection + chemotherapy	AWD (5)
Monaghan and Al-Nafussi¹¹	M/66	Yes	Pleura	Pleural biopsies	Large round, oval, and polygonal cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm. Focal cytoplasmic vacuolization and rare mitoses	INA	INA
Okonkwo et al¹²	F/30	No	Peritoneum	Tumor resection	Deciduoid. One to three mitoses per 10 HPF	Surgical resection	NED (20)
Reis-Filho et al¹³	F/71	No	Pericardium	FNA biopsy, autopsy	Deciduoid with tubulopapillary areas. Two mitoses per 10 HPF	Symptomatic	DOD^a (48 h)
Serio et al¹⁴	F/23^b	No	Pleura	Pleural biopsy	Deciduoid with focal tubulopapillary areas. Two mitoses per 10 HPF	Symptomatic	DOD (39)
	M/73	Yes	Pleura	Pleural biopsy	Deciduoid with focal tubulopapillary areas. Two mitoses per 10 HPF	Chemotherapy	DOD (17)
Shia et al¹⁵	F/69	INA	Pleura	Pleurectomy specimen	Deciduoid	Lobectomy + pleurectomy	DOD (17)
	F/51	INA	Peritoneum	Tumor resection	Deciduoid + tubulopapillary (<25%). Some deciduoid cells had pale or clear cytoplasm	Tumor debulking	DOD (1)
	F/71	No	Pleura	Decortication	Deciduoid	Decortication	DOD (4)
	M/65	Yes	Pleura	Pneumonectomy	Deciduoid	Pneumonectomy + radiation	NED (12)
	M/56	Yes	Peritoneum	Resected specimen	Deciduoid + tubulopapillary (<5%)	Tumor debulking + chemotherapy	DOD (4)
Chung et al¹⁶	F/47	No	Peritoneum	Resected tumor	Deciduoid	Tumor debulking + chemotherapy	AWD (1)
Asioli et al¹⁷	M/62	No	Pleura, predominantly intrapulmonary localized	Lobectomy	Deciduoid	Lt. upper lobectomy	AWD (20)
Maeda et al¹⁸	F/24^c	No	Peritoneum localized	Resected tumor	Deciduoid. Intranuclear inclusions, some cells were multinucleated and some had foamy cytoplasm. Two to three mitoses per 10 HPF	Resection	NED (32)
Mishra and Shet¹⁹	M/75	No	Paratesticular, tunica vaginalis	Orchiectomy	Predominantly composed of clear cells with focal deciduoid and rhabdoid areas. Small areas of tubulopapillary pattern present. Mitoses present	Orchiectomy	INA
Kimura et al²⁰	M/70	No	Peritoneum	Peritoneal biopsy, autopsy	Deciduoid with irregular nuclei and some multi-nucleated cells. Prominent mucinous stroma	INA	DOD (12)
Mourra et al²¹	F/41^d	No	Peritoneum	Tumor resection	Deciduoid with pleomorphic nuclei and rare mitoses	Tumor debulking	DOD (14)
Scattone et al²²	F/23	Yes	Pleura	INA	Deciduoid	Palliative	DOD (39)
	M/73	Yes	Pleura	INA	Deciduoid	Chemotherapy	DOD (43)
	M/71	Yes	Pleura	INA	Deciduoid	Chemotherapy	DOD (38)
	F/32	Yes	Pleura	INA	Deciduoid	Palliative	DOD (24)
	F/52	Yes	Pleura	INA	Deciduoid	Chemotherapy	DOD (24)
	M/74	Yes	Pleura	INA	Deciduoid	Chemotherapy	DOD (12)
Tsai et al²³	M/13	No	Pleura	Pleural biopsy	Deciduoid with binucleated and multinucleated cells	Chemotherapy + pneumonectomy + chemotherapy	AWD (24)
Ustun et al²⁴	F/59	No	Peritoneum	FNA, tumor resection	Deciduoid with occasional binucleated and multinucleated cells. Pseudonuclear inclusions and a few mitoses were seen	Resections	NED (3)

Abbreviations: AWD, alive with disease; DOD, died of disease; FNA, fine needle aspiration; INA, information not available; NED, no evidence of disease.
^aPatient died 48 h after diagnosis, but had symptoms related to the disease for 8 months.
^bFamily history of mesothelioma.
^cPatient was pregnant.
^dTumor presented 6 months after caesarean section and was initially misinterpreted as pseudotumoral deciduosis.

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Table 1 Summary of published cases of deciduoid mesothelioma

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