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Revision as of 16:05, 19 November 2010
This article addresses the basics of vulva, from a pathologic perspective.
Low grade pre-cancerous lesions (VIN) are typically HPV positive, while high grade pre-cancerous lesions and cancer are less often HPV positive.[1]
Most common malignancy of vulva:
- Invasive squamous cell carcinoma.
Precursor lesion:
- vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN).
VIN can be divided into:
- Classic VIN, and
- Differentiated VIN.
- Differentiated VIN is mostly irrelevant as it is basically never seen alone, i.e. it usually accompanies cancer.
Classic VIN
Epidemiology
- Classic VIN, like CIN, is associated with HPV and seen in younger women.
General
- Classic VIN is graded like cervical pre-cancerous lesions:
- VIN I.
- Not common.
- VIN II.
- Not common.
- VIN III.
- Commonly seen.
- VIN I.
DDx:
- Condyloma (genital wart).
- Most caused by HPV.
Micro. of classic VIN
- Increased NC ratio.
- Multinucleation.
- Lack of maturation to surface (not very useful -- unlike in the cervix).[2]
- Apical mitoses.
Differentiated VIN
Epidemiology
- Assoc. with lichen sclerosis.
- NOT associated with HPV and seen in older women.
Histology
- NOT graded like classic VIN.
- Acanthosis (thickening of stratum spinosum) + elongation of rete ridges.
IHC for VIN
- Classic VIN: p16+, p53-.
- Differentiated VIN: p16-, p53+.
ASIDE: p16 can be thought of as a poor man's HPV test.
Lichen sclerosus
General
- Pruritis -> leads to scratching.
Microscopic
Features:[3]
- Loss of rete ridges - key feature.
- Severe hyperkeratosis.
- Fibrosis of dermis with loss of adnexal structures[4]
- Inflammation - often with eosinophils.
Bartholin cyst
General
- Common.
Micro
- Cyst with squamous or urothelial epithelium.[5]
See also
- Gynecologic pathology.
- Uterus.
- Cervix - cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.
- Vagina.
- Anus - anal intraepithelial neoplasia.
References
- ↑ De Vuyst H, Clifford GM, Nascimento MC, Madeleine MM, Franceschi S (April 2009). "Prevalence and type distribution of human papillomavirus in carcinoma and intraepithelial neoplasia of the vulva, vagina and anus: a meta-analysis". Int. J. Cancer 124 (7): 1626–36. doi:10.1002/ijc.24116. PMID 19115209.
- ↑ LAE. February 2009.
- ↑ http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/vulva.html#lichensclerosis
- ↑ NEED REF.
- ↑ http://pathologyoutlines.com/vulva.html#bartholincyst