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Uterus and endometrium path Flashcards

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a disorder that occurs in females and mainly affects the reproductive system. causes the vagina and uterus to be underdeveloped or absent. usually no periods. Primary amenorrhea. may also have abnormalities in other parts. kidneys may be abnormally formed or positioned. skeletal: . . vertebrae. may have hearing loss or heart defects

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Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH)

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what is the endometrium of the uterus composed of

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glands and stroma

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Describe the menstrual phase of the menstrual cycle

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  • days 1-5
  • initiated when corpus luteum involutes if no fertilized egg
  • progesterone drops –> functionalis layer degenerates/sheds
  • bleeding into stroma (fibrin, RBC’s, inflammatory cells)
  • stromal breakdown
  • endometrial “stem cells” in basal layer regenerate after menses
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Describe the proliferative (estrogenic) phase of the menstrual cycle

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  • Rapid growth of glands and stroma arising from deeper basalis layer –> new functionalis
  • GLANDS ARE STRAIGHT, TUBULAR Structures
  • lined by regular tall, psuedostratified columnar cells with basal nuclei
  • NO MUCUS SECRETION OR VACUOLIZATION
  • Stromal cells proliferating (releaseing growth factors)
  • numberous mitotic figures in glands and stromal cells
  • THIS PHASE CEASES AT OVULATION (day 14)
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Describe the early secretory phase (progesterone or luteal phase)

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  • (day 16-17) marked by secretory SUBNUCLEAR vacuoles
  • Most prominent during 3rd week of cycle when vacuoles become SUPRANUCLEAR
  • glands dilate days 18-24
  • glands are Tortuous and serrated or “SAW_TOOTHED”
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Describe the late secretory phase of the menstrual cycle

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  • stromal changes
  • PROMINENT SPIRAL ARTERIES
  • increased ground substance and edema
  • Stromal “PREDECIDUAL CHANGE” about day 23-24
  • increase in stromal mitoses
  • These changes spread over entire functionalis to day 28 and accompaenied by neutrophils and lymphocytes
  • decidualized cells high in glycogen and lipid
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what is the most common cause of abnormal uterine bleeding

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hormonal disturbance that produce dysfunctional uterine bleeding

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What is the most frequent cause of dysfunctional uterine bleeding

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anovulation (failure to ovulate)

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Anovulatory cycles result from subtle hormonal imbalances and are most common when?

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at menarche and in the perimenopausal period

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what are the less common causes of anovulation

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  • Endocrine disorders: thyroid, adrenal, pituitary disease
  • Ovarian lesions: functioning ovarian tumor (granulosa cell tumors) or polycystic ovaries
  • Generalized metabolic disturbances: obesity, malnutrition
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Failure of ovulation results in what hormonally?

This causes what architectural changes?

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excessive endometrial stimulation by estrogens that is UNOPPOSED by progesterone
-cystic dilation

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pneumonic for classification of AUB

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PALM (structural) COEIN (non structural)

  • P: polyps
  • A: Adenomyosis
  • L: Leiomyoma
  • M: Malignancy and hyperplasia
  • C: coagulopathy
  • O: ovulatory dysfunction
  • E: endometrial
  • I: iatrogenic
  • N: not yet classified
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how do you tell an endometrium from anovulation from those of a menstrual cycle

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  • lacks progesterone dependent morphologic features like glandular secretory changes and stromal pre-decidualization
  • the source of progesterone, the corpus luteum does not develop without ovulation
  • most commonly comprosed of psuedostratified glands that contains scattered mitotic figures
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This term refers to a condition that manifests clinically as infertility associated with either increased bleeding or amenorrhea.

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Inadequate Luteal phase

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Inadequate luteal phase is believed to be caused by what

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inadequate progesterone production during the post ovulatory period

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what does an endometrial biopsy show in inadequate luteal phase

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secretory endometrium with features that lag behind those expected for the estimated date

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Acute endomtreitis is uncommon and limited to bacterial infections that arise when?

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after delivery or miscarriage

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What are the usual predisposing influences of acute endometritis

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retained products of conception

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What are the causative agents of acute endometritis

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  • group A hemolytic strep

- staph

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The inflammatory response in acute endometritis is limited to where

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stroma

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Chronic endometritis occurs in association with what disorders

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  • PID
  • Retained gestational tissue, postpartum or post abortion
  • intrauterine contraceptive devices
  • tuberculosis
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The diagnosis of chronic endometritis rests on identification of what?

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PLASMA CELLS in the stroma which are not seen in normal endometrium

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some complaints of women with nonspecific (15% of cases with no apparent cause) chronic endometritis

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  • ABNORMAL BLEEDING
  • pain
  • discharge
  • infertility
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What may be the causative agent of chronic endometritis

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chlamydia associated with both acute (neutrophils) and chronic (lymphocytes and plasma cells)

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defined by the presence of “ectopic” endometrial tissue at a site outside the uterus

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Endometriosis

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The presence of endometrial tissue WITHIN the myometrium 2-3 mm below the basalis layer

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Adenomyosis

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sites of endometriosis in decreasing order of frequency

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  • OVARIES
  • uterine ligaments
  • rectovaginal septum
  • Cul de sac (pouch of Douglas)
  • pelvic peritoneum
  • Large and small bowel and appendix
  • mucosa of cervix, vagina, and fallopian tubes
  • Laparotomy scars
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what is the most likely theory on the cause of endometriosis

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regurgitation theory - retrograde flow of menstrual endometrium through the fallopian tubes

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Pathogenesis of endometriosis

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  • Release of proinflammatory and other factors (IL’s, VEGF, metalloproteinases etc)
  • increased estrogen production by endometriotic stromal cells due to high levels of AROMATASE
  • Epigenetic alterations increase response to estrogen and decrease response to progesterone
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endometriosis is associated with increase in what type of cancer? . . genes involved

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clear cell ovarian cancer

-PTEN and ARID1A

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Symptoms of endometriosis

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  • bleeding PERIODICALLY produces red/blue to yellow/brown nodules on or beneath the mucosa or serosa (powder burn marks )
  • depends on site of involvement
  • pelvic pain
  • Dysmenorrhea (“colicky”) or menometrorrhagia
  • Infertility (30-40%)
  • Dyspareunia (pain with intercourse)
  • Painful defacation with rectal wall involvement
  • Dysuria
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When endometriosis is extensive what can it cause

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-organizing hemorrhage can cause FIBROUS ADHESIONS between tubes, ovaries, and other structures

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Explain a chocolate cyst

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when an ovary in endometriosis becomes markedly distorted by large cystic masses filled with brown fluid from previous hemorrhage . . also called endometrioma

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diagnosis of endometriosis is readily made when?

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when both endometrial glands and stroma are present

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Explain Atypical endometriosis

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  • likely a precursor to endometriosis-related ovarian carcinoma
  • 2 morphological appearances
  • one is cytologic atypia of epithelium lining endometriotic cyst without major architectural changes
  • other is marked by glandular crowding due to excessive epithelial proliferation
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symptoms of Adenomyosis

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similar to endometriosis

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endometrial polyps . . what 3 age groups

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  • Reproductive age
  • Perimenopausal
  • Postmenopausal
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symptoms of endometrial polyps

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  • may be asymptomatic

- or abnormal bleeding

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structural characteristics of endemetrial polyps

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-sessile or pedunculated exophytic masses (can be small or large) single or multiple

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Endometrial polyps have been observed in association with administration of what?

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tamoxifen which is often used in therapy of breast cancer

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Atrophic endometrial polyps mainly occur in who?

they represent what?

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  • postmenopausal women

- atrophic remnants of previously hyperplastic polyps

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Endometrial polyps and malignancy?

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can be malignant

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This is an important cause of abnormal bleeding and a frequent precursor to the most common type of endometrial carcinoma

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endometrial hyperplasia

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defined as an increased proliferation of the endometrial glands relative to the stroma . . increased gland to stroma ratio

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Endometrial hyperplasia

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Endometrial hyperplasia is due to what

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prolonged estrogenic stimulation of the endometrium

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What conditions cause increased estrogen and therefore can cause endometrial hyperplasia

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  • Anovulation
  • obesity (peripheral conversion of androgen to estrogens)
  • menopause
  • polycystic ovarian syndrome
  • Functioning granulosa cell tumors of the ovary
  • excessive ovarian cortical function
  • Prolnged administration of estrogenic substances
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Genetic associations with endometrial hyperplasia

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  • inactivation of PTEN tumor suppressor gene . . 20% of hyperplasias and 30-80% of endometrial cancer
  • PTEN encodes a lipid phophatase . . negative regulator of PI3K/AKT
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Explain what Cowden syndrome is

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  • multiple hamartoma syndrome
  • germline PTEN mutation
  • high incidence of endometrial and breast cancer
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Loss of PTEN leads to overactivation of what

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PI3K/AKT pathway

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2 major WHO categories of endometrial hyperplasia

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  • Non atypical hyperplasia
  • Atypical hyperplasia (endometrial intraepithalial hyperplasia-EIN)

each has different morphology and risk of progression to cancer

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Cardinal feature of non atypical hyperplasia

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increase in gland to stroma ratio

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Describe non atypical hyperplasia

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  • Variation in size and shape (dilated glands)
  • can be back to back glands but USUALLY INTERVENING STROMA REMAINS
  • RARELY progress to cancer (1-3%)
  • after menopause may become cystic atrophy
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Describe Atypical hyperplasia or EIN

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  • COMPLEX PATTERNS of proliferating glands displaying NUCLEAR ATYPIA
  • GLANDS BACK TO BACK AND BRANCHING
  • loss of orientation of nuclei to basement membrane
  • NUCLEAR CHROMATIN OPEN (vesicular)
  • conspicuous NUCLEOLI
  • overlap with well differentiated cancer (23-48% of biopsies for EIN will show cancer on hysterectomy)
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How is atypical hyperplasia managed

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hysterectomy or in young women who desire fertility, a trial of pregestin therapy and close follow up

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what is the most common invasive cancer of the female genital tract

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endometrial carcinoma

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2 broad categories of endometrial carcinoma

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Type I (most common) and type II

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Peak age for endometrial carcinoma

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55-65 (postmenopausal) . . uncommon under 40

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what is an early sign of endometrial carcinoma

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bleeding . . there is no screening test like cervical cancer

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What is another term for type 1 endometrial carcinoma

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endometroid carcinoma because most are well differentiated and mimic proliferative endometrial glands

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Type I endometrial carcinom arise in a setting of what

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endometrial hyperplasia

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type I endometrial carcinoma is associated with what conditions

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  • obesity
  • diabetes
  • HTN
  • infertility
  • unopposed estrogen stimulation
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what is the genetic hallmark for type I endometrial carcinoma

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increased signaling through PI3K/AKT pathway

-may have multiple mutations that increase this

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Main genetic mutations for type I endometrial carcinoma?

type II?

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  • PTEN

- TP53

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Age: type I endometrial carcinoma?

type II

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  • 55-65

- 65-75

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Clinical setting: type I endometrial carcinoma?

type II?

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  • unopposed estrogen, obesity, HTN, diabetes

- atrophy, thin physicque

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Morphology: type I endometrial carcinoma?

type II?

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  • Endometroid

- Serous, clear cell, mixed mullerian

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Precursor: type I endometrial carcinoma?

type II?

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  • hyperplasia

- Serous endometrial intraepithelial carcinoma

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Behavior: type I endometrial carcinoma?

type II?

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  • Indolent, spreads via lymphatics

- Aggressive, intraperitoneal and lymphatic spread

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Grading of type I endometrial carcinoma

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Based on GLANDULAR differentiation
Grade 1: well differentiated
Grade 2: moderately
Grade 3: poorly

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pathologic staging of both types of endometrial carcinomas

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Stage I: confined to corpus uteri itself
Stage II: involves corpus and the cervix
Stage III: extends outside the uterus but not outside the true pelvis
Stage IV: outside true pelvis or involves the mucosa of bladder or rectum

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Describe the grading for type II (serous) endometrial carcinoma

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by definitions poorly differentiated so grade 3

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what ethnicity gets type II serous endometrial carcinoma more often

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African american

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The poorer prognosis of type II serous endometrial carcinoma is thought to be a consequence of what?

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a propensity to exfoliate, travel through the fallopian tubes, and implant on peritoneal surfaces like their ovarian counterparts . . they have often spread outside of the uterus at the time of diagnosis

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Morphology box of type I endometrial carcinoma

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  • localized polypoid tumor or DIFFUSE INFILTRATION of the endometrial lining
  • spread by invasion of myometrium with direct extension to surrounding organs/structures
  • eventual lymph node dissemination
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Symptoms for endometrial carcinoma

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usually produces irregular or postmenopausal vaginal bleeding with excessive leukorrhea

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Survivial and prognosis of endometrial carcinoma depends on what?

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clinical stage at diagnosis

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treatment for endometrial carcinoma

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surgery +/- radiation

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5 year survival rate for stage 1 (grade 1 and 2) endometrial carcinoma?
stage 1 grade 3?
stage II and III?

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  • 90%
  • 75%
  • 50% or less
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morphology of type II serous endometrial carcinoma

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  • Large bulky tumor that deeply infiltrates myometrium and arises in small atrophic uterus
  • propensity for extrauterine spread via lymphatics or tumes
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5 year survival for type II serous endometrial carcinoma

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18-27% even when confined to the uterus

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mortality for type II endometrial carcinoma is 2x greater in who

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African American women

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recurrence rate for type II serous endometrial carcinoma

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80%

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Treatment for type II serous endometrial carcinoma

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  • surgery, radiation, chemo

- PI3K inhibitor clinical trials

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endometrial adenocarcinomas with a malignant mesenchymal component

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Malignant mixed mullerian tumors (MMMTs)

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What is another name for MMMTs

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carcinosarcomas

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genetic mutations for MMMTs (carcinosarcomas)

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similar to endometrial carcinomas

  • TP53
  • PTEN
  • PIK3CA
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presentation of MMMTs (carcinosarcomas)

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postmenopausal women with bleeding

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the outcome of MMMTs (carcinosarcomas) depends on what?

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depth of invasion and stage
-only other prognostic factor is the differentiation of the mesenchymal component . . . Heterologous elements=worse outcome

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Morphology box for MMMTs (carcinosarcomas)

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  • often bulky and polypoid and may protrude through cervical os
  • adenocarcinoma mixed with malignant mesenchyme
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The metastasis of MMMTs usually contains what?

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only the epithelial component

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What are the 2 types of endometrial stromal tumors (only 5% of endometrial cancers)

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  • Adenosarcoma

- pure stromal tumor

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The diagnosis of Adenosarcoma is based on presence of what

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malignant appearing stroma with benign but abnormally shaped endometrial glands

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Adenosarcoma presents most commonly as what

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large broad based endometrial polypoid growths that may prolapse through the cervical os

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Adenosarcomas predominate in who

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women b/t the fourth and fifth decades and are generally considers low grade

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recurrences and adenosarcomas

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1/4 of cases and nearly always confined to the pelvis

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How do you distinguish adenosarcoma from a large benign polyp

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adenosarcoma is estrogen sensitive and responds to oophorectomy

97
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Endometrial stromal neoplasms are divided into what two categories

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  • benign

- endometrial stromal sarcomas . . further divided into low and high grade

98
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chromosomal translocation for low grade stromal sarcomas

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JAZF1-SUZ12

99
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Benign smooth muscle neoplasm of the myometrium that perhaps may be the most common tumor in women

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Uterine leiomyoma

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what is another name for uterine leiomyoma

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fibroids

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what are the 2 tumors of the myometrium

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  • leiomyoma

- leiomyosarcoma

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leiomyoma and karotyping

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40% are abnormal

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chromosome rearrangement for leiomyomas

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HMGIC and HMHIY (chromosomes 12q14p and 6p

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What mutation is found in 70% of uterine leiomyomas

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MED12 . . component of Mediator which allows cells to divide in an uncontrolled way

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Gross features of Leiomyoma

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  • sharply circumscribed
  • single or multiple
  • small or large
  • Firm grey-white masses
  • subserosal, myometrial (intramural), submucosal
  • Rarely involves uterine ligaments, LUS, or cervix
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microscopic features of leiomyoma

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  • bundles of smooth muscle cells (WHORLED APPEARANCE)
  • uniform in size and shape, oval nucleus, long bipolar processes
  • RARE mitosis
  • can degenerate
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Clinical presentation of leiomyoma

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  • may be asymptomatic
  • abnormal bleeding
  • urinary frequency due to compression of bladder
  • sudden pain from infarction of a large pedunculated tumor
  • impaired fertility
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Describe leiomyomas in pregnancy

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  • increase in spontaneous abortion
  • fetal malpresentation
  • uterine inertia (failure to contract with sufficient force)
  • postpartum hemorrhage
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Age for leiomyosarcoma

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uncommon but peak at 40-60

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Leiomyosarcoma arise from what

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stromal precursor cell (de novo)

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karyotypes in leiomyosarcoma

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complex that include deletions (also the MED12)

112
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recurrence and leiomyosarcoma

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common

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metastasis and leiomyosarcoma

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more than 1/2

114
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Gross features of leiomyosarcomas

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2 patterns

  • bulky fleshy invasive masses
  • polypoid intraluminal masses
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key microscopic features of leiomyosarcoma

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  • nuclear atypia
  • Mitotic index of 10 per 10 hpf = malignancy
  • zonal necrosis
116
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explain the high power field mitosis requirement for malignancy in lieomyosarcoma with nuclear atypyia or “epithelioid” cells

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if 5 mitosis per 10 hpf then malignant

117
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Describe the spead of leiomyosarcoma

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  • local to abdominal cavity

- distant to lung

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5 year survival for leiomyosarcoma

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  • 40%

- high grade only 10-15%

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