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3.4.3 Uterine Pathology Flashcards

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What is this an image of?

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Endometrial adenocarcinoma with squamous differentiation

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What are the clinical features and treatment of endometrial carcinoma?

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What is this an image of and what are the characteristics?

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What are the characteristics of the Secretory phase?

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Last 14 days

Progesterone

Secretions

Coiled glands

Edematous stroma

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What is endometrial hyperplasia?

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Increase in the number of glands relative to the stroma (crowded glands)

Clinical importance - common cause of abnormal bleeding and precursor lesion of the most common form of endometrial carcinoma

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What are the covered parts?

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What is this an image of?

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Villo-glandular adenocarcinoma

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What are is the pathogenesis and clinical features of endometriosis?

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What is a leiomyoma?

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Benign Smooth muscle tumor

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What is the treatment of endometrial hyperplasia?

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Hormonal - high dose progestins

Hysterectomy

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Describe the progression of proliferative endometrium to Grade 1 uterine endometroid carcinoma.

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How will the stroma appear in the secretory phase?

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Stromal edema

Prominent arterioles

Predecidualization

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What is adenomyosis?

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Endometrial glands an stroma in the myometrium

Pathology - glands and stroma, Gross - red soft areas in the myometrium

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What is this an image of?

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Malignant Mixed Mullerian Tumor

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What are the characteristics of leiomyosarcoma?

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What are these images of?

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Endometrial polyp w Complex hyperplasia

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What is the difference between these?

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What are these images of?

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Leiomyosarcoma

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What are these images of?

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Low grade endometrial sarcoma

Left - desmin stain

Right - CD10 stain

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What are the common risk factors associated with endometrial andenocarcinoma?

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Prolonged estrogen exposure

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What phase is this in? What is important to note?

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This is in the secretory phase

There is stroma edema

22
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What are the basic characteristics of acute and chronic endometritis?

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Acute - PMNs: Ascending infection, abortion, or instrumentation

Chronic - Plasma cells - IUD, PID, abortion

Clinically - bleeding and pelvic pain - self limiting

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What is this an image of?

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MMMT

Left arrow - cartilage

Right - rhabdomyosarcoma

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What are the clinical features and treatment of Leiomyoma?

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Clinical features - Depends on location, symptomatic, DUB, Mass, others

Treatment - Myometcomy, Hysterectomy, Laparoscopic uterine artery embolization or ligation in women who want to preserve fertility

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What are the covered parts and what are these?

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What are the pathological findings associated with endometriosis?

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Red Blue areas (Mulberry Nodules)

Powder burns secondary to hemosiderin

Fibrous adhesions

Endometrial glands and stroma

Hemorrhage and fibrosis

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What are the histological characteristics of Endometrial polyps?

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Endometrial glands, cysts and hyperplasia

Fibrous stroma

Thick-walled blood vessels

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How will glands appear in the secretory phase?

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Subnuclear vacuoles

Supranuclear vacuoles

Intraluminal secretions

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How do you classify endometrial hyperplasia?

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What are these images of?

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Low grade endometrial sarcoma

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What are the clinical features of endometrial hyperplasia?

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Tumor, obesity, PCO, estrogen therapy

Uterine bleeding

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What are the gross and histological characteristics of endometrial adenocarcinoma?

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What are the characteristics of the proliferative phase?

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First 14 days

Estrogen

Proliferation

Tubular Glands

Monomorphic Stroma

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What is this an image of?

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adenomyosis

35
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What is this an image of?

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Secretory adenocarcinoma

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What is the WHO classification of Endometrial hyperplasia?

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What are the covered parts?

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What are the HONDA risk factors?

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H - Hormones

O - Obesity

N - Nulliparous

D - Diabetes

A - Aging

39
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What is this an image of?

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Benign endometrial hyperplasia

Cystic hyperplasia

40
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What are the important findings in each of these images?

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Left 2 - Sub and supra nuclear vacuoles

RIght - intraluminal secretions

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What are the difference between the type I and type II endometrial carcinoma?

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What is endometriosis?

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Endometrial glands and stroma outside of the uterus

Can be in the ovaries, tubes or round ligaments

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How does the image on the left compare to the image on the right?

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Left - proliferative

Right - secretory

44
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What is this an image of?

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Leiomyosarcoma

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What are the covered parts?

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Left - acute infection - PMNs

Rigt - chronic infection - plasma cells

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