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Bone and PThyroid Path (15/16) Flashcards

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understand normal apperance of pituitary gland

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pituitary

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how does the anterior pituitary stain if it’s growth hormone positive

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has a brown immunostain

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What does normal posterior pituitary histology look like?

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contains pituicytes and axons; secretes antidiuretic hormone (ADH) & oxytocin

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What do we see in the anterior pituitary when we perform a reticulin stain?

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delinateds small clusters of cells that are held together by extracellular framework.

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  • 10-15% of all intracranial neoplasms
  • Women > men
  • 3 rd to 6th decades
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Pituitary adenomas

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What is the most common hormal secreation of Pituitary adenomas?

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Prolactin is most common: (30%)

its a lactotroph/acidophil!!

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What is the second most common pituitary adenoma?

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Non-secreating (null) cell!

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What does a pituitary adenoma look like and how do you resect it?

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well circumscribed

via trans-spenoid resection

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what is a defining characteristic of pituitary adenoma on HE?

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Has dominantly ONE cell type

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What do we see with a reticulin stain of a pituitary adenoma?

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Destruction of normal pattern of reticulin occurs in adenomas

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what does an immunostain look like with pituiatary adenoma?

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would expect speckling all over, now with adenoma just have one dominant cell type

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  • Postpartum ischemic necrosis of pituitary gland
  • Pituitary gland enlarges in pregnancy (increased lactotrophs)

– More susceptible to ischemia – Obstetrical hemorrhage or shock – Results in hypopituitarism (anterior, not posterior)

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Sheehan syndrome

**of ANTERIOR

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  • Slight elevation in prolactin level
  • Result of lack of inhibitory hypothalamic influence on prolactin
  • Caused by a mass/destructive lesion pressing on stalk or hypothalamus-not a prolactinsecreting adenoma
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Rathke Cleft Cyst location:

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• Sella or suprasellar location

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• May produce symptoms or may be asymptomatic (found at autopsy) • Columnar to cuboidal cells with cilia and occasionally mucin, lining a thin walled cyst

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Rathkes cleft cyst

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what is the devo origin of rathkes cleft cyst

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Developmental origin: remnant of Rathke’s cleft pouch

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  • Benign tumors
  • Usually suprasellar, may be within sella, third ventricle or rarely pineal region
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Craniopharyngioma

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When do craniopharyngiomas usually present?

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• Two age peaks – Children (5 to 14yrs): usually adamantinomatous type – Adults (65 to 74 yrs): usually papillary type

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What are the presenting symptoms with craniopharnygiomas?

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– Visual abnormalities (chiasm)

– Hypopituitarism

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– Misplaced odontogenic epithelium

– Vestigal remnants of Rathke’s pouch

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possible histogenesis of craniopharnygiomas

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– Cysts filled with dark brown fluid (motor oil) and cholesterol crystals – Basally palisading squamous epithelium

– Abundant keratin

– Local invasion of brain with chronic inflammation

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Adamantinomatous type

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Your 10 yr old pt recently has a tumor biopsied from the suprasellar region. The tumor has abundant keritin and basaly palisading sq epithelium. Dx?

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Craniopharnygioma adamantinomatous type

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Describe papillary type craniopharnygioma and who do we see it in?

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Papillary type

– Papillary architecture

– No keratin formation

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Why is recurrence common in craniopharngiomas?

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Recurrence occurs due to difficulty in completely resecting

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Pituitary adenomas are proliferations of_____ cells without a_____ network

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monomorphic

reticulin

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Pituitary adenomas are classified based on

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immunostain

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_______cell adenoma is the most common pituitary adenoma

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Prolactin

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Large pituitary adenomas can cause

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bitemporal hemianopsia

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Arise from the pharyngeal pouches

– Inferior and thymus –____ pharyngeal pouch

– Superior –____ pharyngeal pouch

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third

fourth

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30
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  • Are normally located in proximity of upper and lower poles of the thyroid gland
  • May be ectopically located in thymus, anterior mediastinum, carotid sheath
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parathyroid glands

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  • Yellow, brown ovoid nodule
  • 30 - 45 mg
  • Composed primarily of chief cells and some oxyphil cells
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Parathyroid glands

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Parathyroid

In adults there is a large amount of _______

•______ cells secrete parathyroid hormone

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intervening stromal fat 30 – 70%

Chief

33
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Parathyroid gland histology

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encapsulated ovoid cells with purpule nuclei

can be in sheets and look simular to pituitary and can be dispersed w/in gland itself

34
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be able to identify chief cells and oxyphillic cells

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chief and oxyphillic cells

35
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  • Parathyroid Hyperplasia
  • Parathyroid Adenoma
  • Parathyroid Carcinoma

all cause what?

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Parathyroid hyperfunction

36
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What are some causes of hypofunction of parthyroid abnormalities

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  • Congenital (DiGeorge syndrome)
  • Iatrogenic (surgical)
  • Familial
  • Autoimmune
37
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Primary Hyperparathyroidism etiology

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  • Annual incidence: 25 per 100,000
  • F:M = 3:1
  • Middle age to older adults
  • Causes: – Adenoma: 75% - 80% – Primary hyperplasia: 10% - 15% – Parathyroid carcinoma: <5%
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– Erosion of bone matrix by osteoclasts

– Grossly thinned cortex

– Fibrosis of marrow with hemorrhage and cyst formation

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Osteitis fibrosa cystica

39
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– Osteoclasts, reactive giant cells, hemorrhage

– Morphologically identical to giant cell tumor of bone

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Brown tumor

40
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  • Composed of sheets of chief cells with decrease in stromal fat
  • Oxyphil cells may also be present
  • May show a rim of normal parathyroid at the periphery
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Parathyroid Adenoma

41
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  • Solitary nodule arising in a single parathyroid gland
  • 0.5 – 5.0 grams
  • Other glands are either normal or atrophic
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Parathyroid Adenoma

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  • Classically all four glands are involved; however, there may be relative sparing of 1 or 2 glands
  • Morphologically there is chief cell hyperplasia just as in adenomas
  • May be difficult to distinguish histologically from adenoma
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Parathyroid Hyperplasia

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  • Exceedingly rare
  • Difficult to distinguish from adenomas in parathyroid
  • Usually not diagnosed until they become clearly invasive and/or metastatic
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parathyroid carcinoma

44
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What features do we expect to see in parathyroid carcinoma?

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• Cellular atypia is not a reliable feature of malignancy • Mitotic activity, fibrous bands, and capsular/vascular invasion

45
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Why are parathyroid carncinomas difficult to remove?

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• Difficult to remove from surrounding structures at the time of surgery due to fibrous adhesions

46
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is the most common cause of primary hyperparathyroidism

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Parathyroid adenoma

47
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Parathyroid adenomas have a rim of normal parathyroid tissue at the periphery while _______ will not

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(parathyroid hyperplasia will not)

48
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Parathyroid carcinoma is diagnosed be demonstrating

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invasion into surrounding tissues or metastasis

49
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Bone manifestations of hyperparathyroidism result from osteoclast activation and include

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osteitis fibrosa cystica and Brown tumors

50
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• CORTEX:

  • Zona glomerulosa (G): Mineralocorticoids (aldosterone) =
  • Zona fasciculata (F): Glucocorticoids (cortisol) =
  • Zona reticularis (R): Sex steroids (estrogens and androgens) =
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“Salt”

“Sugar”

“Sex”

51
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In the medulla what type of cells release catecholamies?

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chromaffin cells!

52
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• Bilateral thickening of the adrenal cortex

Can be: Diffuse or Nodular

  • Predominantly fasciculata cells : Clear cells
  • Microscopically resembles adrenocortical adenoma
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Adrenocortical Hyperplasia

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Adrenocortical Hyperplasia represenets what microscopically?

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adrenocortical hyperplasia

54
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what does adrenocortical hyperplasia multinodular pattern look like?

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see image

55
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what are the genral features of a adrenocortical adenoma?

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• Yellow • Encapsulated • 1-2 cm •

56
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are adrenocortical adenomas funcitonal or non-functional?

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Functional or non-functional – Cannot be determined by histology – Most are non-functional

57
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where in the adrenal gland do we see the most hyperplasia in adrenocortical adenoma?

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Predominantly zona fasciculata cells – like hyperplasia – Solitary encapsulated lesion

58
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Found in the adrenals, • Rare • >200-300 grams • Usually >5 cm diameter

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adrenocortical carcinoma

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What are key features that differentiate adrenocortical carcinoma from adenoma

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Invasive, with effacement of normal structures

Necrosis and hemorrhage

60
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Where do adrenocortical carcinomas invade?

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Tendency to invade adrenal vein and vena cava • Lymph node metastasis

61
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Describe histology of adrenocortical carcinoma

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can be well to poorly differentiated

see increased mitotic activity

may appear simular to adenoma but have INVASIVE behavior

62
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What features will we more likely see in adrenocortical carcinoma over adenoma

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• Large size (>5 cm) • Capsular and vascular invasion • Necrosis • Increased mitoses • Cellular pleomorphism

63
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• Hypercortisolism: depends on cause

– Exogenous glucocorticoids →

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Cortical atrophy

64
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• Hypercortisolism: depends on cause:

– Increased ACTH →

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Bilateral hyperplasia from Pituitary adenoma

65
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• Hypercortisolism: depends on cause:

– ACTH independent hypercortisol →

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Adrenocortical adenoma or carcinoma

66
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  • Hypercortisolism: depends on cause:
  • Hyperaldosteronism:
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– Usually adrenal cortical adenoma (Conn syndrome)

67
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  • Hypercortisolism: depends on cause:
  • Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) –
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Bilateral hyperplasia

68
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Classic triad seen with pheochromocytoma

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Headaches, palpitations, diaphoresis

69
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Neoplasms composed of adrenal medullary chromaffin cells

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Pheochromocytoma

70
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Are Pheochromocytoma usually bening or malignant, how can you tell?

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IG bening, only sign of malignancy is METASTASIS

71
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See Zellballen architecture with a tons of neuroendocrine markers

Dx

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72
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Describe cytoplasm seen in pheochromocytoma

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abundant; granular and basophilic

may see nuclear pleomorphism

73
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what expands in a pheochromocytoma?

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the MEDULLA, not the cortex

74
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Extra adrenal pheochromocytoma

• Almost all are non-functional

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Paraganglioma

75
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How is a paraganglioma simular to a pheochromocytoma?

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Similar morphology to pheochromocytoma

– Zellballen

76
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Common sites of paraglangliomas

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– Jugulotympanic – Carotid body – Vagal – Aorticopulmonary

77
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What is the rule of 10s for pheochromocytomas

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10% bilateral

10% maligant

10% arise in childhood

10% extra-adrenal (paraganglioma)

10% from familial sydromes

78
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Bilateral hyperplasia is most common finding associated with

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endogenous Cushing (↑ACTH)

79
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Adrenocortical adenomas are mostly ______

• Adrenocortical carcinoma is diagnosed by finding ______

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non-functional

invasion or metastasis

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