Ovarian serous borderline tumors: a critical review of the literature with emphasis on prognostic indicators.

This chapter considers the wide range of nonneoplastic and neoplastic lesions that involve the peritoneum, and in some cases the retroperitoneal lymph nodes, of females. The first half of the chapter deals with inflammatory lesions, tumor-like lesions (including mesothelial hyperplasia), mesothelial neoplasms, miscellaneous primary tumors, and metastatic tumors. The second half of the chapter is devoted to a large group of lesions that share a potential origin from the secondary mullerian system, the prototypical example of which is endometriosis.

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Four cases of endosalpingiosis presenting as masses that resembled neoplasms are described in women 20, 41, 43, and 74 years of age. Each case was referred in consultation because of difficulties in pathologic diagnosis. In two patients, multiple cysts that involved the serosal surfaces of the uterus and adnexa in one case, and the colon, rectosigmoid, pelvic sidewalls, and the cul-de-sac in the other, were excised. In the other two cases, hysterectomy was performed for an enlarged cystic cervix in one case and presumed uterine leiomyomas in the other. In both of these cases, the uterine cervix and lower part of the uterine corpus were extensively involved by multiple cysts on gross examination, and in one of them, a frozen section of the cervical lesion was initially interpreted as "suspicious for invasive minimal deviation adenocarcinoma." On microscopic examination, benign endosalpingiotic glands and cysts were found in all four cases, with striking transmural involvement of the uterine cervix and lower uterine segment and contiguous corpus in the two cases with uterine involvement. The latter two cases are the first examples, to our knowledge, of endosalpingiosis involving the wall of the uterus; the differential diagnosis in these cases includes minimal deviation adenocarcinoma and florid tubal metaplasia with cystification. The four cases in this report, and rare previously reported cases, indicate that although usually a microscopic finding, endosalpingiosis can rarely present as a clinically or grossly evident mass that can be confused with a neoplasm.

Florid cystic endosalpingiosis with tumor-like manifestations: a report of four cases including the first reported cases of transmural endosalpingiosis of the uterus

Primary papillary serous neoplasia of the peritoneum: A clinicopathologic and ultrastructural study of eight cases

Lymph node involvement and lymphovascular invasion in deep infiltrating rectosigmoid endometriosis

Para-aortie and pelvic lymph nodes surgically removed from 50 female patients were examined for glandular inclusions. The findings were correlated with fallopian tube changes in patients whose lymph nodes were found to contain inclusions. Seven of the 50 patients had lymph node glandular inclusions: in six. the inclusions were located primarily in the cortical or capsular regions and were few in number. Of these six patients, four had acute or chronic salpingitis. The seventh patient had exuberant lymph node glandular inclusions initially interpreted as mctastatic adenocarcinoma and salpingitis isthmica nodosa. This patient is discussed in detail. The association of lymph node glandular inclusions with salpingitis has been reported twice previously; one of these two patients had salpingitis isthmica nodosa. These findings suggest a definite relationship between tubal disease and lymph node glandular inclusions. The rare exuberant form of glandular inclusions is benign and should not be confused with adenocarcinoma. It appears definitely associated with salpingitis isthmica nodosa. We suggest two different mechanisms for the pathogcnesis of these inclusions. The first is “benign metastasis” from the proliferating tubal epithelium to the draining lymph nodes. The second is a proliferative stimulus responsible for salpingitis isthmica nodosa which also acts on preexisting glandular incusions to produce the extensive nodal lesion.

Glandular inclusions in lymph nodes: The problem of extensive involvement and relationship to salpingitis

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