W G McCluggage

No ORCID on file · 26 papers in corpus
case-report 2010
International journal of surgical pathology ·doi:10.1177/1066896908329585

Endometrial carcinomas, particularly of endometrioid type, can invade the myometrium or cervix without eliciting a stromal desmoplastic or inflammatory response and have been referred to as diffusely infiltrating endometrial carcinomas. Thi…

case-report 2009
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.2009.070193

BACKGROUND: Both actinomycotic granules and pseudoactinomycotic radiate granules (PAMRAGs) occur in the female genital tract, most commonly in the endometrium. It is important to distinguish between these since the former may result in pelv…

observational 2009
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.2008.064261

AIMS: It is generally considered that an unequivocal histological diagnosis of endometriosis requires the presence of endometrioid-type glands and endometrioid-type stroma. However, small nodules or plaques of endometrioid-type stroma witho…

case-report 2008
Histopathology ·doi:10.1111/j.1365-2559.2008.02975.x
case-report 2007
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.2005.034769

An embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (sarcoma botryoides) of the cervix occurring in a 30-year-old woman is described. In addition to typical areas of the embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, including cartilaginous elements, the neoplasm was characterised…

other 2007
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology ·doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.2007.01391.x

OBJECTIVES: Endometrial polyps are a common cause of abnormal uterine bleeding. Rarely, a hyperplasia, either complex or atypical in type, is identified within a polyp in a biopsy or polypectomy specimen. Currently, it is not known whether …

review 2006
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.2005.029702

A major proportion of the workload in many histopathology laboratories is accounted for by endometrial biopsies, either curettage specimens or outpatient biopsy specimens. The increasing use of pipelle and other methods of biopsy not necess…

diagnostic-accuracy 2004
The Ulster medical journal

This study aimed to evaluate MR as an imaging modality for the assessment of myometrial and cervical invasion in endometrial carcinoma and for the assessment of parametrial and lymph node involvement in cervical carcinoma. Twenty-eight pati…

case-report 2004
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.2003.011338

AIMS: To describe six cases seen in consultation in which artefactual vascular involvement within the ovary by benign granulosa cells caused diagnostic confusion. METHODS/RESULTS: In five cases, the initial favoured diagnoses of the submit…

other 2003
Histopathology ·doi:10.1046/j.1365-2559.2003.01684.x

AIMS: In the female genital tract CD10 has been used to assist in the evaluation of mesenchymal tumours of the uterus and in determining whether endometrial stroma is present. CD10 positivity has also been shown in cervical mesonephric remn…

review 2003
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.56.3.164

The incidence of malignant and premalignant endocervical glandular lesions is increasing. This review covers controversial and difficult aspects regarding the categorisation and diagnosis of these lesions. The terminology of premalignant en…

observational 2003
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.56.4.305

AIMS: The Mirena coil is a levonorgestrel releasing intrauterine device that is in widespread use. This study aims to document the endometrial morphology associated with this device. METHODS: Endometrial specimens from 75 women with the Mi…

other 2002
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.55.5.391

AIMS: Recent studies have shown that CD10 is a useful immunohistochemical marker of normal endometrial stroma and of endometrial stromal neoplasms. The aim of this study was to investigate whether CD10 immunoreactivity is present in ectopic…

other 2002
Histopathology ·doi:10.1046/j.1365-2559.2002.01465.x

AIMS: Preinvasive endocervical glandular lesions, termed cervical glandular intraepithelial neoplasia, are increasing in incidence. The distinction of cervical glandular intraepithelial neoplasia from benign mimics, especially tubo-endometr…

case-report 2001
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.54.1.76

Colonic adenocarcinomas composed predominantly or exclusively of cells with clear cytoplasm are extremely rare.1,2 Considerable diagnostic difficulties can arise in distinguishing primary colonic clear cell adenocarcinoma and metastatic car…

other 2001
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.54.8.655-a
case-report 2001
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.54.6.481

This report describes a uterine tumour exhibiting areas of both endometrial stromal and smooth muscle differentiation. There was extensive intravascular permeation within the myometrium as well as extrauterine vascular involvement. The endo…

case-report 2000
International journal of gynecological pathology : official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists ·doi:10.1097/00004347-200007000-00013

Tamoxifen therapy may result in a variety of endometrial proliferative lesions, including adenocarcinoma, and as recently suggested, proliferative changes within endometriosis. This report describes an endometrioid adenocarcinoma arising in…

case-report 2000
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.53.2.161

This report describes a case of macroscopically visible cystic endosalpingiosis involving the paraovarian region in a woman who had been taking tamoxifen for breast cancer. A 2.5 cm multicystic lesion was seen on the external surface of the…

case-report 2000
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.53.3.241

A case of endometriosis presenting as a mass in the groin of a pregnant woman is described. The mass increased in size during the pregnancy and the radiological features were suspicious of malignancy. Histological examination showed atrophi…

case-report 2000
Histopathology ·doi:10.1046/j.1365-2559.2000.01001.x

AIMS: Adenomyosis is relatively rare in postmenopausal women but recent reports have described its occurrence in this age group in patients taking tamoxifen. This study describes the pathology of nine cases of adenomyosis in postmenopausal …

case-report 2000
International journal of gynecological pathology : official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists ·doi:10.1097/00004347-200004000-00015

An apparently unique intramural uterine lesion is described for which we propose the name adenolipoleiomyoma. On gross examination, a well-circumscribed white intramural mass contained focal fatty areas. Histology showed the mass to be comp…

case-report 1999
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.52.7.543

Two polypoid submucosal uterine lesions were examined histologically and immunohistochemically with monoclonal antibodies to desmin and alpha smooth muscle actin. One case comprised a leiomyoma and the other a polypoid form of adenomyosis. …

case-report 1999
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.52.1.72

A solitary small intestinal ulcer associated with a carcinoid tumour in a nearby Meckel's diverticulum was found in a 77 year old man presenting with massive rectal bleeding. Angiography and a radioisotope study localised the bleeding to th…

other 1997
Journal of clinical pathology ·doi:10.1136/jcp.50.4.324

AIMS: To determine the causes of ovarian granulomatous inflammation and to discuss the differential diagnoses. METHODS: The pathological features of all ovarian granulomas identified by pathology SNOMED coding in Northern Ireland over a 13…