Female Reproductive Pathology Flashcards
What stain is positive in hidradenoma papilliferum?
EMA
What is the difference between mammary and extramammary Paget’s?
Mammary has 95% chance of underlying cancer, underlying extramammary cancer is rare
Paget’s vulva: CK7+, CEA+, mucin+
Paget’s anus: CK20+, CEA+, mucin+
What are the different kinds of vaginal cysts?
Mullerian: endocervical type
EIC: squamous epithelium (prior surgery or trauma)
Mesonephric / Gartner’s cyst: non mucinous cuboidal epithelial cells (lateral walls) but may have mucinous material in the lumen (they are CD10 positive)
Endometriotic cysts
Bartholin cysts: squamous or transitional or mucinous lining (located at 4 o’clock and 8 o’clock)
BQ! Etiology of vaginal adenosis?
Exposure to DES
Vaginal adenosis: Upper 1/3 and anterior wall of vagina, 20% have gross congenital malformation of cervix (T shaped uterine cavity)
Benign glandular epithelium with metaplasia
Koilocytes in low grade cervical lesions are due to which types of HPV and to expression of what viral protein?
HPV 6 and 11
Viral E4 expression
its a productive infection (early and late gene expressed), non integration of viral DNA
High grade cervical lesions are due to which types of HPV and to expression of what viral protein?
HPV 16 and 18
they are non productive infections
only early E6 and E7 genes expressed
there is integration of viral DNA, E6 binds P53, HPV E7 interacts with Rb protein
What is associated with microglandular hyperplasia?
oral contraceptives or pregnancy (hormonal stimulation)
Stains to differentiate between endocervical and endometrial AIS?
Endocervical: CEA, p16
Endometrial: CD10, vimentin
From Dr. Speights:
Endocervical = CEA + and p16 + in cancer, ER negative in cancer, ER + in normal tissue
Endometrial = vimentin + and CD10 + in cancer, PTEN LOSS in cancer, ER negative in both cancer and normal
Which type of cervical cancer is associated with lots and lots of eosinophils (also seen in its metastasis)?
Glassy cell carcinoma (a variant of adenosquamous carcinoma)–very aggressive tumor
What virus is associated with small cell carcinoma of the cervix?
HPV18
When you see actinomycetes colony microscopically and there is a peripheral hot pink area, what is this called and what is the significance?
These are the sulfur granules and it’s called splendora hoeppli phenomenon and the significance is that it is the site of antigen antibody reaction (ie it’s invasive)
What kind of diathesis do you see in endometrial carcinoma?
Watery diathesis
Endometrial dating criteria
In the 28 day cycle, when is the menstrual, proliferative and secretory phases respectively?
Menstrual: Day 1-3
Proliferative: Day 4-14
Secretory: Day 14-28
What are the FIGO grades?
● FIGO 1: resembles microglandular hyperplasia; composed primarily of well formed glands; <5% nonsquamous solid component
● FIGO 2: 6-50% nonsquamous solid component
● FIGO 3: more than 50% nonsquamous solid component; lacks well formed glands, which differentiates it from serous endometrial carcinoma
● FIGO grading excludes serous or clear cell, which are considered high grade (grade 3)
● Raise grade from 1 to 2 or from 2 to 3 if notable nuclear atypia inappropriate for grade (particularly pleomorphism and prominent nucleoli)
● If marked atypia, tumor may be serous without typical papillary architecture (usually p53+)
What do you call a endometrial polyp with smooth muscle in a younger patient with lots of squamous morules that is located in the lower uterine segment?
Atypical polypoid adenomyoma
What is your main differential with papillary serious endometrial carcinoma?
Villoglandular endometrial adenoCA
but this will not have hobnailing and the nuclei will be much lower grade
What endometrial tumor is shown in the image and what are its features and staining pattern?
Low grade endometrial stromal sarcoma
Checkerboard type pattern, mitotic activity is increased, vasoinvasive (sometimes it looks like a bag of worms because it is so angioinvasive)
Staining: Vimentin +, CD 10 +, Actin – focally +, Desmin –, ER / PR +, Beta catenin overexpression
Which type of breast cancer may metastasize to the uterus?
Lobular carcinoma
What has happened to this leiomyoma?
Carneous (or red) degeneration
Carneous degeneration is a subtype of hemorrhagic infarction of leiomyomas that often occurs during pregnancy. On gross pathology, it is characterized by a red (hemorrhagic) appearance of the leiomyoma. Red degeneration primarily occurs secondary to venous thrombosis within the periphery of the tumor or rupture of intratumoural arteries
In MMMT (carcinosarcoma), what is the most common heterologous element and which part is most likely to metastasize?
Rhabdomyosarcoma is most common heterologous element and the carcinoma component is more likely to metastasize
What is the most common site of endometriosis in the GYN tract?
Ovary
Name 3 tumors associated with endometriosis:
1) Endometroid
2) Clear Cell
3) Stromal sarcoma
What is the most common tumor associated with BRCA gene mutation?
Serous carcinoma
What gene mutation is found in high grade serous carcinoma? Low grade?
High grade: p53
Low grade: BRAF, KRAS
Which type of borderline tumor is more likely to be associated with endometriosis and be bilateral?
Mucinous muellerian (endocervical type)
The intestinal type is more common overall though
Which syndrome is clear cell carcinoma of the ovary associated with?
Lynch Syndrome (HNPCC)
What is the only difference microscopically between a malignant Brenner tumor of the ovary and a primary urothelial carcinoma of the ovary (shown here)?
The Brenner tumor will have areas with the normal grooved nuclei (coffee bean nuclei shown here)
If you see this picture of a cerebriform ovary, what tumor should you think about?
Stains?
Cytology appearance?
Dysgerminoma
Cytology: tigroid appearance on cytology and small lymphocytes
Stains: CD117, PLAP, OCT3/4, SALL4
What stain is positive in yolk sac tumor in addition to AFP?
Ovary: Keratin, AFP (yolk sac elements, hepatic or intestinal epithelium in teratomas) and CD10
Testis: AFP (diffuse through cytoplasm and hyaline globules), cytokeratin, SALL4, Glypican3 (in hepatoid variant), PLAP (variable), CD117 (in solid pattern)
Yolk sac has red globules similar to clear cell (shown here)
What is the entity shown of a peritoneal lesion that is associated with teratomas?
Gliomatosis peritonei
Thought to be a response to teratomas (WEIRD!)
ALSO associated with endometriosis and ventricular peritoneal shunts
In the ovary, what is the most common heterologous element in a carcinosarcoma?
Cartilage
In uterus it is rhabdomyosarcoma
What placental lesion is shown here?
Amnion nodosum
Staghorn plaques on membranes, a condition characterized by yellow nodules of compressed squames and hair on the surface and membranes, is associated with severe, long-standing oligohydramnios
What are the different staining patterns of extramammary Paget’s disease regarding
1) primary vulvar Paget’s
2) vulvar Paget’s with underlying anorectal CA
3) vulvar Paget’s with underlying urothelial CA
Rare lesion of vulva/perianal skin, contrast to Paget’s disease of the nipple in that underlying adenocarcinoma may be rare. Mucin+, CEA+
1) Primary vulvar Paget’s: CK7, GCDFP-15 +; CK20-
2) Vulvar Paget’s secondary to anorectal carcinoma:
CK20+; CK7, GCDFP-15 –
3) Vulvar Paget’s secondary to urothelial carcinoma:
CK7, CK20, UPlakin-III +; GCDFP-15 -
What are the components of a pathology report that should be incluced in vulvar squamous cell carcinoma?
• Depth of invasion
- Thickness of the tumor
- Lymphovascular invasion
- Margin status
- Tumor grade (1, 2 or 3)
What percentage of cervical SCC constitutes microinvasion and what are the stats on mets with these lesions?
< 5 mm (or 3mm depending on source) invasion is microinvasion
• < 1% of microinvasion of 3 mm metastasize
• < 10% of microinvasion of 3-5 mm metastasize
What percentage of adenoCA of the cervix has associated squamous intraepithelial lesions?
30-60%
What is the definition of microinvasive squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva? How does that differ from the cervix?
Vulva: Tumor depth less than 1mm as measured from the basement membrane of the nearest dermal papilla to the point of deepest invasion by tumor and less than 2cm in diameter
Cervix: Tumor depth less than 3mm as measured from the basal layer of overlying surface epithelium to the point of deepest invasion by the tumor, tumor diameter less than 7mm
*if invasion is present only adjacent to an involved gland, the measurement is from the top of the gland to the point of deepest invasion by tumor
Angiomyofibroblastoma (shown here) and aggressive angiomyxoma are very similar lesions. What stain is helpful in differentiating?
Smooth Muscle Actin
positive in angiomyofibroblastoma and negative in aggressive angiomyxoma (shown here)
How are ovarian teratomas graded?
Grade 1 – neoplasms with embryonal tissue absent
or limited to a rare low magnification (X40) field
and not more than one such focus in any slide.
Grade 2 – embryonal tissue does not exceed three
low power microscopic fields in any slide.
Grade 3 – embryonal tissue occupies four or more
low magnification microscopic fields in at least one
slide.
What is being shown in this photo and what tumor is it associated with?
Azzopardi effect
Seen in small cell carcinomas when the necrotic tumor cells condense their chromatin material around blood vessels
*Only seen in lung small cells, NOT in ovarian!
What stain is an E-cadherin binding protein which is advocated by some experts for some E-cadherin equivocal cases?
p120
It will show membranous staining in DCIS and cytoplasmic staining in LCIS
What stain is positive in almost 100% of lobular carcinoma (in situ and infiltrating)?
GCDFP
Metaplastic breast carcinomas are frequently AE1/AE3 (pankeratin) and CAM5.2 negative. Therefore, what stains should always be used to rule it out?
CK903 and p63
Paget’s disease of the breast ALWAYS has underlying DCIS and 50% of the time has underlying invasive carcinoma. Sometimes it can be hard to tell between Paget’s cell and Toker cells of the nipple. What stains can help?
Paget’s cells will be CK7, mucin, HER2 positive
Toker cells will be CAM5.2 positive but HER2 and mucin negative
What unique translocation is seen in high grade endometrial stromal sarcomas and must be present to classify as high grade according to 2014 WHO?
t(10;17) (q22;p13) resulting in gene fusion YWAHAE-FAM22
The prognosis of this subset of HG-ESS is intermediate between LG-ESS and undiff uterine sarcoma.
About half of endometrial stromal sarcomas have the t(7;17) JAZF1/JJAZ1 gene fusion but recently a fusion associated with higher grades was discovered.
Tumors with YWHAE-FAM22 rearrangements constitute a distinct group of ESS, which is associated with high-grade morphology and aggressive clinical behavior compared to JAZF1 ESS. Thus, their distinction from typical JAZF1 ESS is important for prognostic and therapeutic purposes.
What type of HPV is associated with Bowenoid papulosis of the vulva or penis?
HPV 16
How often is extramammary Paget’s disease associated with underlying invasive carcinoma?
30%
What vaginal lesion is shown and what would its location be?
The low cuboidal cells with hyaline material (resembles colloid) should be a clue that this is a mesonephric duct remnant (Gartner’s cyst) and they are located on the lateral vaginal wall
CD10 positive
What vaginal lesion is shown and what causes it?
Vaginal adenosis
DES exposure
Can become clear cell carcinoma