PATHOLOGY - WEIRD NAMES Flashcards
Cryptorchidism
Undescended intraabdominal testes into scrotal sac
Orchiopexy
Surgery to move or permanently place testicles to scrotum.
Bowen’s disease
MALIGNANT - Early form of skin cancer that is easily treatable
Bowenoid papulosis
STD - rare d/t HPV 16,18
Peyronie’s disease
Benign - Non-cancerous scar tissue at penis that causes curved and painful erection
Condyloma Acuminatum
Genital warts - benign
Balanoposthitis
Inflammation of the penis
Hypospadias
ventral surface urethral orifice
Epispadias
Dorsal surface urethral orifice
Phimosis
Foreskin closing the penis and causing blockage
Gardnerela
Variable gram staining facultative anaerobic bacterial infecting group
Orchitis
Inflammation of one or both testicles
Reinke crystal
Seen under microscopy for Leydig cell tumour
AFP, beta-HCG
alpha fetal protein seen in choriocarcinoma, teratoma, yolk sac tumour, teratoma
B-HCG secreted by syncytiotrophoblasts
5-alpha reductase
Secreted by stromal cells and converts testosterone into DHT, dihydrotestosterone