Difference between revisions of "Gastrointestinal cytopathology"

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===General===
===General===
*Pancreatic head: classically IPMN.
*Pancreatic head: classically IPMN.
*Pancratic body & tail: mucinous tumour.  
**IPMN assoc. with colloid carcinoma.
*Pancreatic body & tail: mucinous tumour.  


===Cytology===
===Cytology===
Features:
Features:
*Sheets of mucinous cells.
*Clusters or sheets of mucinous cells.
*+/-Nuclear atypia.
*+/-Nuclear atypia.
*+/-Thick mucin.
**Suggestive of IPMN.


Notes:
Notes:
*In the body & tail mucinous cells may be contamination from [[stomach]]. (???)
*In the body & tail mucinous cells may be contamination from the [[stomach]].
**Lesions in the pancreatic head are approached from the duodenum - do not have this problem.
**Lesions in the pancreatic head are approached from the duodenum - do not have this problem.
*Ovarian stroma is '''not''' seen on cytology.
*Ovarian stroma is '''not''' seen on cytology.
*Thick mucin may be from stomach.


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