An unusual case of aggressive small‐cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of cervix in a young woman

Abstract

Neuroendocrine tumors comprise a broad family of tumors that arise from the diffuse neuroendocrine cell system. They usually arise in the lungs, bronchi, small intestine, appendix, rectum, pancreas, and thymus. The uterine cervix is a very unusual site accounting for 1.4% of all cervical cancers. These are highly aggressive tumors, characterized by early distant metastasis and worse prognosis compared to other histological types occurring in the cervix.