Complex karyotypic aberrations, including i(12p), in malignant mixed mullerian tumor of uterus

We report the cytogenetic findings in a malignant mixed mullerian tumor of the uterus in a 59-year-old woman. Karyotypic analysis of short-term cultures revealed two abnormal clones of cells characterized by extensive structural and numerical rearrangements. An i(12p) maker chromosome was present in addition to other changes in both clones. This marker, characteristically associated with testicular germ cell tumors in males, has recently been reported in ovarian germ cell tumors, a mediastinal germ cell tumor and in a mixed mullerian tumor of the ovary.