sbcp Flashcards
pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium
respiratory epithelium
silver stain
pneumocystis carinii
Pontiac fever
legionella pneumoniae
pink puffer
emphysema
blue bloater
chronic bronchitis
alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency
early onset emphysema and cirrhosis
Charcot-Leden crystals
Curshmann spirals
Creda bodies
asthma
acid and alcohol fast rods ziehl-neelsen stain ghon focus/complex caseating granulomatous inflammation epitheliod histiocytes Longhand giant cells and lymphocytes
TB
Masson bodies
cryptogenic organising fibrosis
crocidolite
nasty asbestos type
Caplan lesions
coal workers pneumoconiosis
erythema nodosum
granuloma
ACE
hypercalcaemia
sarcoidosis
Kerley B lines
beads on a string (congested capillaries along alveolar septa)
heart failure cells (macrophages containing yellow brown haemosiderin granules)
pulmonary oedema
smoker
older
nipple discharge
duct ectasia
blood stained discharge
obstruction of single duct
intraductal papilloma (can become papillary carcinoma)
clinical examination
mammography/USS
FNA/core biopsy
triple assessment
exaggeration in normal physiological changes
fibroadenosis
breast mouse
solid firm well circumscribed
fibroadenoma (phyllodes tumour - malignant counterpart)
fibroblasts
histiocytes
adipocytes
fat necrosis
lactating women
abscess
eczema around nipple
pagets disease of the great (large round malignant epithelial cells invading squamous epithelium of nipple - underlying DCIS)
calcification picked up on mammography
DCIS
no necrosis or micro calcification
premenopausal
bilateral
lobular carcinoma in situ
tubule formation
cells in nests/sheets/cords/islands
invasive ductal carcinoma (mucinous, tubular, medullary and papillary
indian file
infiltrating lobular carcinoma
red infarct
venous occlusions
lung
dual circulation
pale infarct
solid organs with single blood supply eg heart, spleen, kidney
distal tissues - pale painful pulseless cold
arterial thrombus
distal tissues swollen red tender
venous thrombus
Charcot Bouchard brain aneurysm
retinopathy
papilloedema
benign nephrosclerosis
hypertension
malignant arteriosclerosis
fibrinoid necrosis of arterioles
hyperplastic arteriolitis/onion skinning (concentric lamellae
malignant hypertension
Aschoff body (pale focus on eosinophilic hyaline material surrounded by lymphocytes and macrophages
rheumatic fever
squamous epithelium
ectocervix
mucin secreting glandular epithelium
endocervix
junction of endo and ectocervix
transformation zone
LLETZ - large loop excision of transformation zone
dysplasia of bottom 1/3 cervical epithelium
mild cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN I)
dysplasia of bottom 2/3 cervical epithelium
moderate cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN II)
full thickness dysplasia of cervical epithelium
severe cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN III)
progresses to squamous carcinoma
koliocytosis
large and irregular nuclei
HPV infection
lots of mucin
nuclei heaping on top of each other
apoptotic bodies
mitotic figures
cervical glandular intraepithelial neoplasia (CGIN)
low/high grade
progresses to adenocarcinoma
HPV 6 + 11
low risk cervical cancer
anal warts - condyloma accuminatum
HPV 16 + 18
high risk cervical cancer
anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN)
polypoid/friable mass arising in transformation zone
cells invading stroma
squamous cell carcinoma
endocervix
not visible at colposcopy
adenocarcinoma
squamous and adenocarcinoma components
adenosquamous carcinoma
keratinising stratified squamous epithelium
normal vulva
white itchy vulval dystrophy
lichen sclerosis
squamous cell hyperplasia
vulval dystrophy
younger patient
HPV link
multifocal
low invasion risk
bowenoid/undifferentiated vulval intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN I-III)
preinvasive
progress to vulval squamous carcinoma
older patient no HPV link associated dystrophies unifocal high invasion risk
simplex/differentiated vulval intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN I-III)
preinvasive
progress to vulval squamous carcinoma
intraepithelial adenocarcinoma
pagets disease
circumscribed tumour
white whorled cut surface
spindle shaped cells
lack atypical features
fibroids/leiomyoma
endometrial tissue in myometrium
adenomyosis
endometrial tissue in site distant from uterus
endometriosis
small risk of malignant change
precursor - endometrial hyperplasia
perimenopausal
high BMI, HTN, DM
unopposed oestrogens
type 1 endometrial cancer - endometrioid type adenocarcinoma
older patient without normal risk factors atrophic endometrium aggressive advanced stage and poor prognosis p53 mutation infiltrates myometrium hobnail appearance papillary structures
type 2 endometrial cancer - serous carcinoma
spindle shaped cells
nuclear pleomorphism
areas of necrosis
leiomyosarcoma (malignant counterpart to fibroid)
small blue cells invading myometrium
very bland
few mitotic figures
endometrial stroma sarcoma
adenocarcinoma and sarcomatous elements
carcinosarcoma/malignant mixed mullein tumour (MMMT)
multiple cysts
follicular derivation
PCOS
mucinous cystadenoma
benign
thin walled cyst with some papillary growths
borderline
solid or complicated cystic
malignant - subtypes; mucinous, serous, endometrioid, clear cell, transitional
risk of malignancy index
menopausal status
CA125 level
USS findings
mature teratoma (dermoid cyst) with skin appendages, hair, gut etc
benign germ cell tumour
immature teratoma teratoma with malignant transformation yolk sac tumour (check serum AFP) dysgerminoma choriocarcinoma (check serum hCG)
malignant germ cell tumours
fibroma/fibrothecoma
ascites and plural effusions
benign sex cord stromal tumour
Mengs syndrome
granulosa cell tumour
nuclear grooves
malignant sex cord stromal tumours
large multinucleated cells
osteoclasts
mononuclear cells on bone surface
osteoblasts
osteoblasts surrounded by osteoid
osteocytes
haematoma and acute inflammation organisation of haematoma (granulation tissue) primary callus response external bridging callus remodelling several months later
fracture healing
staph aureus e coli pneumococcus group a strep mycobacterium tuberculosis
organisms of osteomyelitis
fibrous stroma containing plasma cells and lymphocytes
chronic osteomyelitis
synovial hyperplasia
chronic inflammation
lymphoid aggregates
lymphoid follicles
rheumatoid arthritis
fixed hyper extension of PIP and flexion of DIP
swan neck deformity
fixed hyper flexion of PIP and extension of DIP
boutonnieres deformity
reduced amount of normally mineralised bone loss of microarchitecture thinning of cortical bone trabecular bone poorly defined no interconnections
osteoporosis
increased seams of unmineralised osteoid
osteomalacia
bone thickened
increased osteoblasts
disorganised
pagets disease
long bones
central nidus of irregular trabecular / woven bone and osteoid in highly vascular stroma surrounded by mass o sclerotic bone
osteoid osteoma - benign
cartilage capped bony projection
osteochondroma - benign
cartilaginous lesion in medullary cavity
enchondroma - benign
hard to tell apart from a low grade chondroscarcoma - malignant
locally aggressive
in epiphysis
may produce osteoid
giant cell tumour - benign
produces malignant osteoid
intramedullary
high grade
osteogenic sarcoma - malignant
small round blue cell tumour
poorly differentiated
affects shaft of long bones
ewings sarcoma - malignant
thyroid breast prostate lung kidney
common primary sites of bone metastases
follicles and germinal centres
B cells
(macrophages between follicles)
lymph node cortex
lymph sinuses (containing macrophages)
blood vessels
some b cells
lymph node medulla
T cells
lymph node paracortex
granulomatous inflammation
sarcoidosis TB fungal infection hodgkins crohns
non caseating granulomata
eptheloid cells
langhans giant cells and lymphocytes
increased calcium and ACE
sarcoidosis
indolent - lymphocytic / follicular
aggressive - lymphoblastic, burrkits, diffuse large B cell, mantle cell
85% B cell
Non Hodgkins Lymphoma
small lymphocytes
prolymphocytes
most common leukaemia
chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)
NHL
centroblasts and centrocytes
follicular lymphoma (NHL) progresses to diffuse large B cell lymphoma (NHL)
lymphatoid polyposis (extra nodal in small bowel) monotonous proliferation of small lymphoid cells
mantle cell (NHL)
jaw / ileocaecal mass
intermediate cells
starry sky appearance
diffuse growth
burrkits (NHL)
worse than b cell
cell size varies
sezary syndrome - spreads to blood
mycosis fungicides - primary cutaneous
T cell lymphoma (NHL)
Reed Sternberg cells
Hodgkins lymphoma (HL)
nodular sclerosis - lacunar cells and sclerotic bands
mixed cellularity - Reed Sternberg!
classical Hodgkins lymphoma
Philadelphia chromosome
chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML)
blast seen
merges with lymph node disease
children
acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
plasma cell neoplasm
bence jones protein in urine
monoclonal Ab band on plasma electrophoresis
myeloma
stratified squamous to columnar epithelium
premalignant
red on endoscopy
barretts metaplasia of oesophagus
periodic acid schiff (PAS) positive
hyphae stained red
white plaques on endoscopy
candida
linear punched out ulcers
multinucleated giant cells with ground glass inclusions
hERPES
exophytic polypoid luminal mass / necrotising malignant ulcer eroding wall / adjacent structure
diffuse infiltrating neoplasm causing stricture
squamous carcinoma of oesophagus
most common type
oesophageal cancer
obese middle aged white men
barretts risk factor
adenocarcinoma
petechial/flea bitten haemorrhage in stomach mucosa
acute / erosive gastritis
autoimmune lymphocytic pernicious anaemia
type a chronic gastritis
h pylori infection
type b chronic active gastritis
mucosal injury and regenerative change eg reflux, drugs, chemicals
type c chronic gastritis
defect in epithelial lining where it undergoes necrosis due to direct toxic insult and inflammatory response
peptic ulcer
gland forming tumour in body/antrum/cardia
intestinal type gastric carcinoma
infiltrate of mucin containing signet ring cells
extensive invasion stomach walls ‘linitis plastic’
early age
e cadherin gene mutation
diffuse type gastric carcinoma
confined to mucosa / submucosa without involving muscularis propria
early gastric carcinoma
bilateral ovarian tumours
krunkenberg