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Name 2 types of benign epithelial tumour

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  • papilloma (SURFACE EPITHELIUM)

- adenoma (GLANDULAR EPITHELIUM)

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What is the name of a benign tumour of squamous epithelium e.g. skin?

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Squamous cell papilloma

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What is the name of a benign tumour of the ductal epithelium of the pancreas?

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Pancreatic cystadenoma

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What are the exceptions to the normal rules of naming benign epithelial tumours?

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  • melanoma
  • lymphoma
  • seminoma
  • mesothelioma
    etc
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What are malignant epithelial tumours called?

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Carcinomas

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How are malignant epithelial tumours derived from surface epithelial named?

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By prefixing carcinoma with the cell of origin eg. squamous cell carcinoma

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What is the name for malignant tumours derived from glandular/ductular epithelium?

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Adenocarcinomas

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Name a benign tumour of stratified squamous epithelium eg. skin, oropharynx etc.

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Squamous cell papilloma

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Name a bening tumour of basal cells of the skin

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Basal cell papilloma

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Name a benign tumour of transitional epithelium of the bladder

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Transitional cell papilloma

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Name a benign tumour of glandular epithelium of liver

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Liver cell adenoma

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Name a benign tumour of glandular epithelium of thyroid

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Follicular adenoma

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Name a malignant tumour of basal cells of the skin

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Basal cell carcinoma

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Name a malignant tumour of glandular epithelium of colon

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Colonic adenocarcinoma

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Name a malignant tumour of glandular epithelium of breast

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Breast adenocarcinoma

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what is the rule for classifying benign mesenchymal tumours?

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Prefix = tissue or cell of origin

Suffix = ‘-oma’

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What is a benign tumour of bone?

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Osteoma

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What is a benign tumour of adipose tissue?

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Lipoma

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What is a benign tumour of smooth muscle?

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Leiomyoma

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What is a benign tumour of skeletal muscle?

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Rhabdomyoma

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What is a benign tumour of a blood vessel?

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Angioma / haemangioma

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What is a benign tumour of cartilage?

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Chondroma

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What is a benign tumour of fibrous tissue?

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What are malignant mesenchymal tumours called?

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How are malignant mesenchymal tumours named?
Prefix = tissue or cell of origin Suffix = '-sarcoma'
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What is a malignant tumour of adipose tissue?
Liposarcoma
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What is a malignant tumour of smooth muscle?
Leiomyosarcoma
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What is a malignant tumour of cartilage?
Chondrosarcoma
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What is a benign tumour of melanoyctes called?
Melanocytic nevus
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What is a malignant tumour of melanocytes called?
Melanoma
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Name 3 types of malignant tumour of blood cells
- leukaemia - lymphoma - myeloma
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Name 5 types of CNS tumours
- meningioma - astrocytoma - oligoendroglioma - ependymoma - medulloblastoma
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What is a meningioma?
Arises from meningeal tissue of brain (usually benign)
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What is an astrocytoma?
Arise from the star-shaped glial cells called astrocytes
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Name a type of astrocytoma
Glioblastoma multiforme (most common and most malignant of the glial tumours)
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What is an oligoendroglioma?
Originate from the oligodendrocytes of the brain or from a glial precursor cell
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What is an ependymoma?
Arises from the ependyma, a tissue of the central nervous system
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Where are germ cell tumours common?
Gonads
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How can germ cell tumours be divided?
- seminomatous | - non-seminomatous
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Give an example of a seminomatous germ cell tumour
Seminoma
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Give an example of a non-seminomatous germ cell tumours
Teratoma (teeth/hair/muscle/neural/cartilage)
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What are the features of embryonal tumours?
- occur in very young (under 5) | - have a histological resemblance to embryonic cells of that organ
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Give 4 examples of embryonal tumours
- retinoblastoma (in eye) - nephroblastoma (Wilm's tumour of kidney) - neuroblastoma (adrenal medulla or nerve ganglia) - hepatoblastoma (liver)
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What is a carcinosarcoma?
Malignant tumors that consist of a mixture of carcinoma (or epithelial cancer) and sarcoma (or mesenchymal/connective tissue cancer) eg. in ovaries
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Name 4 malignant tumours with benign names
- melanoma - mesothelioma - myeloma - lymphoma
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What is a hamartoma?
- non-neoplastic overgrowth of normal tissue - indigenous to the site of occurrence - developmental abnormalities - eg. lung hamartoma
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Hamartomas usually consist of what?
2 mature cell types normally found in the organ in which the lesion lies e.g. lung hamartoma = cartilage and bronchial epithelium
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What is a choristoma?
- excess of normal tissue in an abnormal situation - nodules of organ parenchyma in another organ - aka. heterotropic rests - eg. normal (non-neoplastic) pancreas nodule in stomach
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what is a primary tumour?
tumour has arisen in organ of mutation
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what is a secondary tumour?
tumour has escaped original environment via lymphatic/vascular system setting up another metastatic deposit in the body
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what is the name of a benign tumour of surface (non-glandular / non-secretory) epithelium?
papilloma
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what is the name of a Benign tumour of glandular / secretory epithelium?
ADENOMA
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what is the suffix for a benign epithelial tumour?
-oma
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what is the rule for classifying benign epithelial tumours?
CELL TYPE of origin (eg squamous/colonic) → surface/glandular (Papill-/aden-) → suffix: -oma
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what is the rule for classifying malignant epithelial tumours?
Named by prefixing ‘carcinoma’ with epithelial cell of origin e.g. BASAL CELL CARCINOMA
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what is the rule for classifying malignant epithelial tumours of secretory epithelium?
Named by prefixing ‘adenocarcinoma’ with epithelial cell of origin

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