Name: Kate Mandeville                  

Theme: Gynae Histopathology – Ovarian tumours

 

OPTION LIST

 

A

Clear cell tumour

I

Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma

 

B

Dysgerminoma

J

Serous cystadenocarcinoma

 

C

Fibroma

 

K

Sertoli-Leydig tumour

D

Granulosa cell tumours

 

L

Thecoma

E

Krunkenberg tumour

 

M

 

F

Immature teratoma

N

 

G

Mature cystic teratoma

 

O

 

H

Monodermal teratoma

 

P

 

 

 

You are a histopathologist based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.  You have been sent an ovarian biopsy sample from a 27-year-old woman. Choose the most appropriate diagnosis for the following histological appearances from the list above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all:

 

1. Squamous epithelium mixed with intestinal epithelium

 

2. Fibrous tissue containing spindle cells and lipid

 

3. Malignant cells surrounded by serous fluid and Psammoma   bodies

 

4. Malignant signet ring cells containing mucin

 

5. Germ cells mixed with lymphocytes

 

 

 

ANSWERS

1. G

2. L

3. J

4. E

5. B