Friday, November 9, 2007

Uterine Polyp: Hysterectomy specimen















1) Hysterectomy specimen before inking for margins.
Can see:
- cervix, cervical canal, corpus, fundus, fallopian tubes, serosal leiomyomata
















3) section before being processed. The polyp is superficial. Endometrial lining (which is replaced by polyp in this image)is supposed to be very thin (few milimeters?), the pt was past 60.

















2) Can see the jelly-like polyp in the midst of fibroid field. This polyp looked pretty benign bit hyperplastic in sections but in cytology cells looked very malignant. Also the previous history of endometrial papillary serous carcinoma that was resected was recalled. Thus the diagnosis is same (even without histology to prove it), malignant per cytology.