Pathology BUZZ words

Question 1

Call-Exner Bodies

Answer 1

Granulosa cell tumors

Question 2

Caseating necrosis

Answer 2

Squamous cell carcinoma

Question 3

Coffee Bean Nuclei

Answer 3

Call Exner bodies, found in granulosa cell tumors

Question 4

Schiller-Duval bodies

Answer 4

Endodermal Sinus Tumor

Invaginated papillary structures with a central vessel

Question 5

Psammoma bodies

Answer 5

Seen in 60% of uterine papillary serous carcinoma

= round central area with surrounding collections of calcium

Question 6

Hobnail cells

Answer 6

clear cell adenocarcinoma (associated with pelvic endometriosis)

Question 7

Bulbous nuclei that protrude far into the cystic lumen, beyond the apparent cytoplasmic limits of the cell

Answer 7

Hobnail cells

Associated with clear cell adenocarcinoma (which is associated w/ endometriosis 50% of the time)

Question 8

A rosette arrangement of cells around an eosinophilic fluid space

Answer 8

Call Exner Bodies

Granulosa cells

Question 9

extracellular, round, laminar, dark, eosinophilic collections of calcium

Answer 9

Psammoma bodies

Associated with papillary serous tumors

Question 10

Sheets of lymphocytes/gemr cells

Answer 10

Dysgerminoma

Question 11

Immature neuroepithelium

Answer 11

Immature teratoma

Question 12

Malignant cytotrophoblasts/syncytiotrophooblasts

Answer 12

Choriocarcinoma

Embryonal carcinoma