The American journal of surgical pathology

The significance of varying degrees of epithelial atypicality was investigated in 27 endometrioid adenofibromas and cystadenofibromas of the ovary. The tumors were classified as atypical or borderline on the basis of the degree of atypicali…

Endometriosis occurred within the prostate of a 78-year-old man after a long course of estrogen therapy. The presence of endometrial tissue in the region of the urethral crest has potential histogenic and therapeutic implications for some o…

A total of 49 consecutive specimens of lung cancer were collected prospectively at surgical resection or autopsy from 40 men and nine women, aged 40-74 years. Of the 49 tumors, the gross appearance of 22 fitted the description of a scar can…

Examples of focal clearing of endometrial epithelial nuclei associated with the presence of trophoblastic tissue have been oberved recently in our surgical pathology laboratories. These nuclear alterations were initially observed in endomet…

Examples of focal clearing of endometrial epithelial nuclei associated with the presence of trophoblastic tissue have been observed recently in our surgical pathology laboratories. These nuclear alterations were initially observed in endome…

Omenta removed either at surgery or autopsy were examined for benign glandular inclusions. Multiple random sections failed to reveal these inclusions in any of the 37 male or 27 female autopsy specimens. None of the 22 male surgical specime…

Thirteen endometrioid carcinomas of the ovary with predominant patterns resembling those of sex cord-stromal tumors are reported. Eight of these neoplasms had been misinterpreted by the referring pathologists as sex cord-stromal tumors, alm…

Five unusual polypoid lesions of the endometrium which we term atypical polypoid adenomyomas are described; these growths occurred in premenopausal women. Each of the polyps was characterized by irregular atypical glands with squamous metap…

Leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata is a pseudomalignant condition which mimics disseminated abdominal carcinoma. A new case is reported and compared to the 11 well-documented cases in the literature. All reported patients have experien…

We investigated seven uterine wall lesions, selected because of the presence of unexpected patterns or components, to determine their relationship to normal uterine constituents. These lesions included a bizarre leiomyoma, a palisading leio…

The clinicopathologic features of five cases of müllerian adenosarcoma of the uterus are presented and are compared with those of previously reported cases. Four tumors were localized in the endometrium; in one case, a cervical or endometri…