GYN 2 Flashcards
What is milky nipple discharge a sign of?
galactorrhea, can be normal, drug related, thyroid related, or due to prolactinoma
What is bloody nipple discharge a sign of?
intraductal papilloma
What is greenish/brown nipple discharge a sign of?
mammary duct ectasia
What is purulent nipple discharge a sign of?
acute mastitis
What is the most common “painful” breast mass for women less than 50?
fibrocystic changes
What is the most common breast mass?
fibroadenoma
Who is intraductal papilloma commonly found in?
perimenopausal and menopausal patients
What are the characteristics of mastitis?
sudden onset of fever, localized pain, and swelling
What is the most common cause of mastiti?
staphylococcus aureus
When do the most aggressive breast cancers occur?
less than 40 years old
When do most breast cancer cases occur?
greater than 50 years old
What gene is associated with nearly half of early-onset breast cancer?
BRCA 1
What are the 3 categories of breast cancer malignancies?
ductal, nipple, lobular
What is the most common breast cancer?
invasive ductal carcinoma
What is the most common organism to cause bacterial vaginosis?
gardnerella vaginalis
What is the color of the discharge of candidiasis?
thick, “cottage cheese” curdy, white
What is the pH of candidiasis?
<4.5
Is the amine odor with KOH of candidiasis positive or negative?
negative
What does the wet mount of candidiasis show?
WBC, spores, pseudohyphae
What is the color of the discharge of trichomoniasis?
frothy, green/yellow discharge
What is the pH of trichomoniasis?
> 5
Is the amine odor with KOH of trichomoniasis positive or negative?
positive
What does the wet mount of trichomoniasis show?
WBC, motile trichomonads
What does the cervix look like with trichomoniasis?
petechia or strawberry patches
What is the color of the discharge of bacterial vaginosis?
thin, white/grey discharge
What is the pH of bacterial vaginosis?
> 4.5
Is the amine odor with KOH of bacterial vaginosis positive or negative?
positive - “fishy smell”
What does the wet mount of bacterial vaginosis show?
few WBCs, clue cells
What is the most common complaint for someone with vulvar cancer?
vulvar pruritus
What is the tx for Bartholin abscess?
I and D followed by insertion of a word catheter and abx
What are some risk factors of breast cancer?
- Age >50
- 1st-degree relatives
- Radiation exposure
What is the name of the cancer that is located on the nipple?
Paget disease (ductal carcinoma in-situ)
What does Paget disease present as?
- Eczematous lesions
- orange peel appearance
Almost all lobular (invasive lobular carcinoma) are what?
- Estrogen receptor +
- Multifocal and bilateral
What are the diagnostic studies used for breast cancer?
- Mammogram
- FNA
- Core needle bx
- Excisional bx: GOLD standard
What is the tx for breast cancer?
- Radical Mastectomy
- Modified radial mastectomy
- Lumpectomy
- Chemotherapy
Vulva cancer occurs at what age?
Postmenopausal women: 70-80 yo
What is the MC cell that makes up vulva cancer?
- SCC
- most develop through VIN
Where is melanoma found in pts with vulva cancer?
- Clitoris
- Labia minora
Where does adenocarcinoma start?
Bartholin glands
What are the characteristics of vulva cancer?
Red or white ulcerative or exophytic lesions
Most lesions are located where in regards to vulva cancer?
posterior 2/3 of labia
What are the dx and tx options for vulva cancer?
- Dx: biopsy of multiple sites
- Tx: laser, excision, vulvectomy
What is the age risk factor for vaginal cancer?
> 55 yo
What is the MC cell found in vaginal cancer and where is it MC’ly found?
- Squamous cell - secondary to cervical or vulvar cancers
- upper 1/3 of vagina
What is VAIN 1 classified as and how would you tx?
Basal epithelial
- monitor, no therapy
What is VAIN 2 classified as and how would you tx?
2/3 vaginal epithelium
- topical chemo (5-FU cream)
What is VAIN 3 classified as and how would you tx?
> 2/3 vaginal epithelium
- laser ablation, local excision, intracavitary radiation, topical chemo (5-FU) or partial/total vaginectomy
What are the risk factors for cervical ca?
- 1st intercourse < 18 yo
- Multiple partners
- Infrequent/ abnormal paps
What are the HPV types responsible for cervical cancers? Of those which two are MC?
16, 18, 31, 45
- 16 and 18 are MC
What is the pap test report for CIN 1?
Mild cervical dysplasia
What is the pap test report for CIN 2?
Moderate to marked cervical dysplasia
What is the pap test report for CIN 3?
Severe dysplasia to carcinoma in-situ
What are the Dx test for cervical cancer?
- Pap
- HPV DNA
- Colposcopy
What are the Tx options for cervical cancer?
- Cryo
- Laser ablation
- LEEP
- Cold knife conization
What would you expect to find on an exam in a pt with fibrocystic breasts?
- Lumpy, thick, firm
- Not able to feel clear margins
- Able to move tissue.
What may a pt present with if they have fibrocystic breasts?
- Non-bloody, green, or brown nipple discharge.
- Fluctuance in size
- Rapid appearance or disappearance of lesions
What are the Dx for fibrocystic breasts?
- Bx: diagnosis often rest on this pathology
- US
- mammo: not indicated <30
What is the tx for fibrocystic breasts?
- Reassurance- NO potential for malignancy
- limit caffeine consumption
- BC pills
Fibroadenoma is MC’ly found in who?
Younger women
- if found in older women they are calcified
What is the cause of Fibroadenoma?
- Hormonal response: estrogen sensitive
- Changes in size with pregnancy
- Regresses w/ menopause
What are come clinical findings of an Fibroadenoma?
- Round, firm, discrete, relatively movable
- Non-tender: 1-5cm mass
What are the dx test for Fibroadenoma?
- US: well-defined mass with benign features
- Core Needle Biopsy: confirm dx
What are some clinical finding in a pt with Intraductal papilloma?
- Bloody, serous, or turbid nipple discharge
- May stain bra
What is the Dx for intraductal papilloma?
- Mammogram &/or Ultrasound
- Ductography: identify intraductal filling defect
What is the Tx for intraductal papilloma?
Excision of involved duct
Galactorrhea is a milky d/c that occurs in who?
In women who aren’t pregnant or breast feeding
What are the causes of Galactorrhea?
- Physiologic
- Neoplastic
- Hypothalamic- Pituitary
- Medications (SSRIs, TCAs)
What are the dx test for Galactorrhea?
- Serum pregnancy test
- Prolactin level
- Renal function test
- TSH
- Official visual field test
- MRI
What is the tx for Galactorrhea?
Treat underlying cause
When should you suspect an abscess in a pt with mastitis?
If sxs cont. after starting pt on antibiotics
If pt has mastitis and abscess is present what may you note on PE?
Fluctuant mass with palpation
What is the the tx for BV?
- Metronidazole
- Clindamycin
What are the risk factors for candidiasis?
- DM
- Obesity
- Pregnancy
- Immunosuppressed
- Oral contraceptives or corticosteroids
- Broad spec antibiotics
What is the tx for candidiasis?
- “azoles “: topical, suppository, or oral
What is Trichomonas associated with?
- PID
- Endometriosis
- Infertility
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- Premature birth
What is the tx for Trichomonas?
- Metronidazole
- Tinidozole
- Treat sexual partners
- Undergo other STI testing