Classification Of Tumors Flashcards
abnormal mass of tissue, the growth of which
exceeds and is uncoordinated with that of the normal tissues
and persists in the same excessive manner after cessation of the
stimuli which induced the change is ?
neoplasm
Tumors are classified according to behavior into?
Benign tumors
– Malignant tumors
clue for differentiation?
Morphology
All tumors have two basic components?
1) The parenchyma, made up of transformed or neoplastic
cells. (2) The supporting non-neoplastic stroma, made up of
connective tissue, blood vessels, and host-derived
inflammatory cells.
Nomenclature?
Benign tumors: In general, benign tumors are designated by attaching the suffix -oma to the cell type from which the tumor arises.
Malignant tumors
• Malignant neoplasms of epithelial cells are called carcinomas
• Malignant neoplasms arising in “solid” mesenchymal tissues,
or its derivatives are called sarcomas
benign tumor arising in fibrous tissue is ?
fibroma
benign cartilaginous tumor is
chondroma
sarcomas,
-Exceptions
sarcomas, eg. Chondrosarcoma
-Exceptions
malformation that presents as a mass of
disorganized tissue indigenous to the particular site?
Hamartoma
mass of mature but disorganized hepatic cells,
blood vessels, and possibly bile ducts within the liver?
Hamartoma
may be a hamartomatous nodule in the lung
containing islands of cartilage, bronchi, and blood vessels ?
Hamartoma
Features to distinguish between benign and malignant neoplasm:
?
- Differentiation and anaplasia 2. Rate of growth 3. Local invasion 4. Metastasis
extent to which they
resemble their normal counterparts morphologically and
functionally. ?
1.Differentiation
1.Differentiation is seen in ?
parenchymal cells
Benign neoplasms 1.Differentiation?
well differentiated
Malignant neoplasms 1.Differentiation?
range of parenchymal cell
differentiation, from well differentiated to completely
undifferentiated (anaplastic) Between the two extremes lie tumors
referred to as moderately differentiated.
Anaplastic features?
Pleomorphism (variation in size and shape of cells & their
nuclei) 2. Hyperchromatic large nuclei 3. Increased nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio (1 : 1 , normal 1 : 4 ) 4. Multi nucleated Giant cells. 5. Mitoses often are numerous and distinctly atypical; tripolar or
quadripolar mitotic figures ) 6. Fail to develop recognizable patterns of orientation to one
another (i.e., they lose normal polarity).
2.Rate of growth:
• Most benign tumor? most malignant?
grow slowly, / grow
much faster.
Poorly differentiated tumors tend to ?
grow more rapidly
than do well differentiated tumors.
grow more rapidly
than do well differentiated tumors.
?
benign
It
does not have the capacity to infiltrate, invade, or metastasize to
distant sites.
?
benign
progressive infiltration,
invasion, destruction, and penetration of the surrounding
tissue.
?
Malignant