[Glassy cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix: An aggressive type of cancer].

INTRODUCTION

Cervical cancer is the twelfth most frequent cancer in women in France. Glassy cell carcinoma is a rare histological entity, rapidly aggressive, associated with a poor prognosis.

CASE REPORT: A 30-year-old woman was admitted in an internal medicine department for polyarthralgia with high grade fever, evolving for 3 weeks. There was an inflammatory syndrome. The 18-FDG-PET-scan showed inflammatory lymph nodes as well as disseminated osteolytic lesions, and a primitive pelvic tumor. A 3cm tumor of the cervix was found during the gynaecologic examination. Histological analysis elicited a high-index mitotic carcinoma, glassy cell carcinoma type. Despite chemotherapy, the outcome was poor, with early death occurring after three months of follow-up.

CONCLUSION

The glassy cell carcinoma of the cervix should be considered as an aetiology of bone metastases in young female patients.