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Gynae Flashcards

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How is Fallopian tube inflammation called?

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salphingitis

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What is Ovarian inflammation called?

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Oophritis

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What is PID

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Infection ascending from vagina and cervix up to uterus and Fallopian tubes, leading to inflammation (endometritis, salpingitis) and the formation of adhesions.

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What are the most common organisms causing PID?

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Chlamydia trachomatis and N. gonorrhoea are most common organisms in UK.

In the world: TB and schistosomiasis

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What are the complication of PID?

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  • 10% have Fitz Hugh Curtis syndrome – RUQ pain from peri-hepatitis + “violin-string” peri- hepatic adhesions
  • Infertility
  • ↑Risk of ectopic pregnancy
  • Bacteraemia → SEPSIS
  • Tubo-ovarian abscess
  • Chronic PID
  • Peritonitis
  • Plical fusion – fimbrial ends of fallopian tubes adhere together
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What is the aetiology of sealpingitis?

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Fallopian tube inflammation

Usually due to direct ascent from vacina (except TB)

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What is the epidemiology of cervical cancer?

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2nd most common cancer affecting women worldwide

Bipmodal age distribution:
1. 30-39
2. >70

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What is the aetiology and risk factors for the development of cervical cancer?

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95% are associated with HPV infection (especially type 16 and 18)

Many sexual partners, early sexual activity
smoking
immunosuppression

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Which HPV tpyes cause genital warts

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6& 11

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Which HPV types cause cervical cancer?

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16&18

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What is prognosis of Cervical Cancer?

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Depending on Grade:
5 year survival:

90% Grade 1
10% Garde IV

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What tissue can uterine tumours arise from?

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All (eptheilal/ stroma and muscular layeR)

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What are tisk factors for endometrial epithelial tumours

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Any that cause overstimmulation of endometirum (hormonal)

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what is the most common Endometiral Cancer?

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Endometrioid

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How does mismattch reapir mutation lead to Carcinom?

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Common mutations found
Essentially mutations and mistakes in genes are not detected and repaied –> mutation accumulate

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What are the most common pathogens causing PID secondary to termination of pregancy?

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S. aureus
Streptococcus
C. perfringens
Coliforms

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What are the clincal symptoms of PID?

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bilateral lower abdo pain
deep dyspareunia
vaginal bleeding/discharge
fever
adnexal tenderness
and cervical excitation

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Name 3 organisms that have serious complications if infecting the female genital tract

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Chlamydia: major cause of infertility
Gonorrhoea: major cause of infertility
Mycoplasma: causes spontaneous abortion and chorioamnionitis
HPV: implicated in cancer

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What is Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia?

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Dysplasia at the Transitional Zone of the Cervix as a result of infection by HPV 16 & 18

Usually epithelial cells (not glandlar cells) undergo transformation

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How is CIN graded on histology?

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Devided into Grades 1-3

CIN 1 = dysplasia confined to deepest 1/3 of epithelium

CIN 2 = lower 2/3

CIN 3 = full thickness, but basement membrane intact

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What is the prognosis for CIN?

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60-90% of CIN 1 reverts to normal over 10-23 months

30% of CIN 3 progress to cervical cancer over 10 years if left untreated

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What are the two main tissue types of cervical carcinoma?
How common are they?

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Majority (80%): Squamous Cell Carcinoma

20%: Adenocarcinoma

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What is the difference between pruductive and non-productive HPV infection?

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  1. Non-productive/latent (infection occured but no cellular changes + infection can only be diagnosed by molecular methods)
  2. Productive → cytological and histological changes (CIN or cervical carcinoma)
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How does HPV infection cause Cervical carcinoma? (Molecular mechanisms)

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Cervical proteins inhibit TSG

HPV encodes E6 and E7 proteins which inactivate 2 TSG
(TSGs):
1. E6 inactivatesP53→proliferation
2. E7 inactivates Retinoblastoma (Rb) gene→ proliferation

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How many people with cervix infected with HPV will develop cancer?

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Usually HPV becomes undetectable in 90% of cases within 2 years

10% of persistent infection are at high risk of developing malignancy

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What is the frequency of cervical smears (prevention) for women in the UK?

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What parameters are looked at during cervical smear screening in the UK?

How good are they?

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  1. Cytology: 50-95% sensitiviy to detect high-grade CIN and SCC
  2. HPV-DNA test: RNA probe to detect presence of the most common cancer-associated HPV types
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At what age is the HPV vaccine administered?

What strains does it prevent?

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Offered to Girls and Boys 12-13 years

In England, they are offered
1st dose in school Year 8
2nd dose offered 6 to 24 months after the 1st dose

Vaccinating against 6,11 (warts), 16+18 (cancer) (for Gardasil9)

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How is Cervical Carcinoma Staged?

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Usually staged using the FIGO system

Stage 0: CIN
Stage I: ONLY Cervix (47%)
Stage II: spread into UPPER 1/3 VAGINA
Stage III: spread into PELVIC SIDE WALL and/or LOWER 1/3 VAGINA
Stage IV:
METASTASIS beyond pelvis to bladder/bowel

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What are risk factors for the development of endometrial carcinoma?

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Nulliparity
Obesity
Diabetes mellitus
Excessive oestrogen stimulation

31
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What histological types are most endometrial cancers?

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85% are adenocarcinomas (incl. endometrioid, serous and clear cell adenocarcinoma)

15% are Squamous Cell Carcinomas

32
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What are the characteristics of an endometrioid adenocarcinoma?

Oestrogen dependent/independent?
What mutations?
Risk factors?
Stage at presentation?

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Most common form (80%, looks simialr to endometrial tissue)

  • Are oestrogen dependent
  • Risk factors: E2 excess: obesity, anovulatory amenorrhoea (e.g. PCOS), nulliparity, early menarche, late menopause, tamoxifen
  • Often associated with atypical endometrial hyperplasia
  • Develop through the accumulation of mutations of different genes (PTEN mutation in >50% of genes)
  • Can present high and low grade/stage at presentation
33
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What is the epidemiology of endometrial cances?

What is the epidemiology of endometrioid adenocarcinoma vs. clear cell/ seroud?

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Most common gynaecological malignancy in developed countries, causing 6% of new cancer cases in women (4th common malingnancy in women)

Endometrioid: perimenopausal most common
Serous/clear cell: post-menopausal most common

34
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What are the characteristics of serous and clear cell adenocarcinoma of the endometrium?

Oestrogen dependent/independent?
What mutations?
Risk factors?
Stage at presentation?

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Older, postmenopausal
Less oestrogen dependent
Arise in atrophic endometrium
High grade, deeper invasion, higher stage

Serous cell

  • P53 mutations in 90%
  • PI3KCA mutations in 15% Her-2 amplification

Clear cell

  • PTEN mutation
  • CTNNB1 mutation
  • Her-2 amplification
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How are endometrial carcinomas staged?

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FIGO system:
1. Stage 1 – Cancer ONLY in uterus
2. Stage 2 – spread to CERVIX
3. Stage 3 – spread to PELVIC AREA
4. Stage 4 – METASTASIS to rectum/bladder/distal organs

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How are serous cells and clear cell endometrial cancers graded?

How are endometrioid adenocarcinoma graded?

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  1. Serous, clear cell, mixed, undifferentiated, dedifferentiated and carcinosarcoma are considered high grade.

Endometrioid in FIGO 3 grade system graded

37
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What is the epidemiology of leiomyomas?

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Fibroids

Benign smooth muscle tumour (myometrium)
20% of women >35yrs

(oestrogen dependent- enlarge during prengnacy, shrink post-menopausal)

38
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What is a leiomyosarcoma?

Epidemiology?
Prognosis?
Usual characteristics

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Malignant counterpart of a leiomyoma

Usually
- single, solitary lesion with local invasion and blood spread
- Rare, but most common in post-menopausal women
- 5 year survival 20-30%

39
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What is the epidemiology of endometriosis?

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Common - 10% of premenopausal women

40
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What are features that make you more suspicious of malignancy in an ovarian cyst?

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+ Multi-locular more likely to be malignant

41
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What is a functional ovarian cyst?

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Functional = the cysts develop as a result of physiological processes

Result from a disruption in the development of follicles or the corpus luteum and often resolve on their own

42
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What are the 3 different sub-groups of functional ovarian cysts?

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  1. Follicular cysts (most common cyst in young women, when graafian follicle does not rupture and continues to grow)
  2. Corpus luteum cyst (failed regression of corpus luteum, associated with pregnancy or progesterone only pills)
  3. Theca lutein cyst - multiple bilateral cysts due to overstimmulation by gonadotrophin (ofen ß-hCg)
43
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What are different non-functional ovarian cysts? What are their characteristics?

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  1. Chocolate cysts - endometriosis: cyst with blood or other fluids
  2. Dermoid cysts - bening teratoma
  3. Cystadenoma (serous or mucinous) - bening counterparts of the malignant sub-types
44
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What is the most common type of ovarian tumours?
What is its epidemiology?

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Epithelial tumours (95% of malignant tumours)
However:most ovarian tumours are benign

50% found in 45-65 yo, otherwise post-menopausal

45
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What are the 2 most common types of benign ovarian epitheliam tumours?

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  1. Serous Cystadenomas
  2. Mucinous cystadenomas
46
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What is serous cystadenoma?

What is it’s epidemiology?

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Most common benign epithelial ovarian tumours

usually in women aged 30-40

47
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What type of tumour is a mucinous cystadenoma?

What is its epidemiology?
What would be findings on histology?

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2nd most common bening epithelial tumour of the ovaries

Affects younger women
usually derived from mucin secreting cells (seen on histology)

48
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What genetic mutation is commonly seen in mucinous cystadenomas?

What hormone does it commonly secrete?

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K-ras mutation present in 75% of cases

Most common oestrogen-secreting tumour

mucinous cystadenomas 2nd most common benign epithelial tumours of ovary

49
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What is pseudomyxoma perionei?

What is is associated with?

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Peritoneal spread of mucinous tumours

Ovarian epithelial tumours (mucinous cystadencarciomas) might spread to periotoneal cavity and form more mucinous tumours

Most commonly arise from appendix, but can also come from ovaries

50
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What is endometrioid ovarian cancer?
What are common histological findings?

What is the prognosis?

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Mimics endometrium – i.e. form tubular glands (therefore endometriosis is a risk factor)

Usually better differentiated and better prognosis than high-grade serous carcinomas

51
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A 60 yo patient presents wih an ovarian cyst. Biopsy of the cyst shows psammoma bodies - whatt is the most likely diagnosis?

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High-grade serous carcinoma

Psammoma bodies are calcified, concentric rings

52
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What is the most common type of ovarian cancer?

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High-grade serous carcinomas

Serous cystadenocarcinomas (80%)

53
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What tumours is a raise in Ca125 associated with (sub-types)?

What other diesease might lead to a rise in this?

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CA-125 is used as a tumor marker for epithelial ovarian cancer
- but can also be elevated in
- endometriosis
- cirrhosis
- and malignancies (e.g., uterine leiomyoma).

54
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What are risk factors for the devlopment of ovarian cancer?

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  • Nulliparity
  • infertility
  • early menarche
  • late menopause
  • +ve Family history of Ovarian/breast cancer
  • Endometriosis
  • smoking (mucinous tumours only)
  • obesity
  • IUD

Protective
- COCP

55
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What genetic mutations are associated with familiar ovarian cancer?

What is their inheritence pattern?

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Most common: association with mutations in BRCA 1 + BRCA 2 (>90%) (familial breast-ovarian cancer syndrome)

  1. Cancer family syndrome (Lynch type II)

Usually inherited autosomal dominantly

56
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What gene is mutated in Lynch II syndrome?

What does it increase the risk of?

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Inherited Cancer type with mutations in various DNA mismatch repair genes

Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer - usually presents with Colorectal Carcinoma (CRC) but 40% also associated with ovarian cancer (endometrioid and clear cell types)

57
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What genetic mutations are commonly seen in high-grade ovarian serous carcinoma?

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Alteration in P53, in virtually all

BRCA1 or BRCA2 abnormalities (germline and somatic mutations; BRCA1 promoter methylation)

58
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What are common genetic mutations in low grade ovarian serous carcinoma?

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Distinct pathogenesis from high grade serous carcinoma.

Low grade, relatively indolent, arise de novo or from borderline ovarian tumours.

Mutations in KRAS, BRAF.

No association with BRCA mutations.

59
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What is the risk factor for development of endometrioid carcinoma?

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  1. Endometriosis
  2. (Endometrial cancer present in 10-15%)
60
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What is the most importnat risk factor in the developemnt of clear cell ovarian carcinomas?

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Strong association with endometriosis

61
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What is a Kurkenberg tumour?

What is a common histological finding?

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Ovarian metastases associated with primary cancers of stomach, breat and colon

Buzzword on histology: Mucin producing signet ring cells

62
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What are characteristics of borderline ovarian tumours?

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Borderline of malignant and Bening

Bening:
1. well-diferentiated
2. do not invade BM

Malignant
1. nuclear pleomorphism
2. cellular atypia
3. spread to adjacent structures

63
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What ovarian cancer sub-types are associated with endometriosis?

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  1. Endometrious
  2. Clear cell
64
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What are usual presenting features of ovarian cancer?

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  1. increased abdominal girth/bloating
  2. persistent pelvic/abdominal pain
  3. early satiets

And even more unspecific
- fativue, change in bowel habits + urinary frequency

? Adnexal mass

65
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What tumour markers can be used for Preop and follow up planning in epithelial ovarian cancers (mucinous)

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For all: Ca125

but also: Ca19-9

66
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What types of ovarian cancers can increased the tumour marker inhibin?

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Granulosa cell tumours
(only useful in follow-up)

67
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What types of ovarian cancers can increased the tumour marker hCG

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dysgerminoma
Chariococarcinomas

68
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What types of ovarian cancers can increased the tumour marker AFP?

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Endodermal yolk sac
Teratomas

69
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What investigations would you do in a women with suspected ovarian cancer?

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Calculate risk of a Malignancy index
1. Menopausal state
2. Pelvic ultrasound
3. CA125 levels

If intermediate or High
1. CT Abdo Pelvs / MRI

Usually then straight into surgical removal, biopsy only done if diagnosis uncertain or primary chemotherapy is considered

70
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What staging system is used to stage ovarian cancers?

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FIGO saging

71
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What are the characteristics of sex-cord stromal ovarian tumours?
What is the epidemiology?

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Account for 10% of ovarian tumours
Similar epidemiology, but some sub-types can present younger

But 90% of all hormone-producing tumours

72
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What is the most common sex-cord ovarain tumour?

What are the others?

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Most common: Graunulosa cell ttumours (presents with large pelvic mass or pain due to torsion)

Others
1. Sertoli-Leydic cells (produce androgens, rarely oestrogens)

others

73
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What tumour markers would you order if you suspected a germ-clel tumour?

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Depending on sub-type
Collectively can order

  1. AFP (yolk sac, immature teratoma, embryonal(
  2. LDH
  3. ß-hCG (Choriocarcinoma, dysgerminoma)
74
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What is the epidemiology of germ-cell ovarian tumours?

What is the most common sub-type?

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Account for 10% of ovarian tumours

Usually present in young women

Most common
1. Dysgerminjoma (50%) - sometimes ß-HCG
2. Yolk-sac tumours (10-15%) - AFP
3. Teratomas (10%)
4. non-gestational choriocarcinomas are very rare

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