Difference between revisions of "Urothelium"

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===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_PBoD1028>{{Ref PBoD|1028}}</ref>
Features:<ref name=Ref_PBoD1028>{{Ref PBoD|1028}}</ref>
*Benign in budding nests of urothelium.
*Nests of (benign) urothelium budding into the lamina propria.


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*[[Urothelial carcinoma]], nested variant.<ref name=pmid12960809>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Volmar | first1 = KE. | last2 = Chan | first2 = TY. | last3 = De Marzo | first3 = AM. | last4 = Epstein | first4 = JI. | title = Florid von Brunn nests mimicking urothelial carcinoma: a morphologic and immunohistochemical comparison to the nested variant of urothelial carcinoma. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 27 | issue = 9 | pages = 1243-52 | month = Sep | year = 2003 | doi =  | PMID = 12960809 }}</ref>
*[[Nested urothelial cell carcinoma]].<ref name=pmid12960809>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Volmar | first1 = KE. | last2 = Chan | first2 = TY. | last3 = De Marzo | first3 = AM. | last4 = Epstein | first4 = JI. | title = Florid von Brunn nests mimicking urothelial carcinoma: a morphologic and immunohistochemical comparison to the nested variant of urothelial carcinoma. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 27 | issue = 9 | pages = 1243-52 | month = Sep | year = 2003 | doi =  | PMID = 12960809 }}</ref>
*[[Inverted urothelial papilloma|Inverted papilloma]].
*[[Inverted urothelial papilloma|Inverted papilloma]].


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==Cystitis cystica==
==Cystitis cystica==
Microscopic:<ref name=Ref_PBoD1028>{{Ref PBoD|1028}}</ref>
===General===
*Brunn nests with urothelium.
*Benign.
*Can be thought of as [[von Brunn nests]] with cystic change.<ref name=Ref_WMSP304>{{Ref WMSP|304}}</ref>
 
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_PBoD1028>{{Ref PBoD|1028}}</ref>
*Nests of urothelium within the lamina propria with cyst formation, i.e. lumens are present.


==Cystitis glandularis==
==Cystitis glandularis==
Microscopic:<ref name=Ref_PBoD1028>{{Ref PBoD|1028}}</ref>
===General===
*Brunn nests with cuboidal and columnar epithelium.
*Benign.
*Can be thought of as [[cystitis cystica]] with mucin-secreting cells lining the cystic spaces.<ref name=Ref_WMSP304>{{Ref WMSP|304}}</ref>
 
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_PBoD1028>{{Ref PBoD|1028}}</ref>
*Nests of urothelium within the lamina propria with cyst formation, i.e. lumens are present.
*Cyst lining cells are cuboidal and/or columnar epithelium.
**Produce mucin.
*+/-Goblet cells, i.e. intestinal metaplasia.<ref name=Ref_WMSP304>{{Ref WMSP|304}}</ref>


==Malakoplakia==
==Malakoplakia==
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