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==Tunnel cluster== | ==Tunnel cluster== | ||
===General=== | ===General=== | ||
*Benign. | |||
*Not the same as ''microglandular hyperplasia''.<ref>URL: [http://www.nature.com/modpathol/journal/v13/n3/full/3880047a.html http://www.nature.com/modpathol/journal/v13/n3/full/3880047a.html]. Accessed on: 26 July 2011.</ref> | *Not the same as ''microglandular hyperplasia''.<ref>URL: [http://www.nature.com/modpathol/journal/v13/n3/full/3880047a.html http://www.nature.com/modpathol/journal/v13/n3/full/3880047a.html]. Accessed on: 26 July 2011.</ref> | ||
===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||
Features:<ref>URL: [http://pathologyoutlines.com/cervix.html#tunnelclusters http://pathologyoutlines.com/cervix.html#tunnelclusters]. Accessed on: 27 February 2011.</ref> | Features:<ref>URL: [http://pathologyoutlines.com/cervix.html#tunnelclusters http://pathologyoutlines.com/cervix.html#tunnelclusters]. Accessed on: 27 February 2011.</ref><ref>URL: [http://surgpath4u.com/caseviewer.php?case_no=477 http://surgpath4u.com/caseviewer.php?case_no=477]. Accessed on: 5 September 2011.</ref> | ||
*Benign | *Well-circumscribed lesion consisting of: | ||
*Benign endocervical glands. | |||
**Dilated & filled with mucin ''or'' (less commonly) eosinophilic secretions. | |||
**Lining epithelium compressed/flattened (attenuated). | |||
**Gland architecture: branching, tortuous. | |||
**Scant intervening stroma. | |||
Notes: | Notes: | ||
#Usually '''no''' nuclear atypia and '''no''' mitotic activity. | |||
#Important only as one could possibly mistake it as ''minimal deviation adenocarcinoma'', [[AKA]] ''adenoma malignum''.<ref name=pmid2764221>{{cite journal |author=Gilks CB, Young RH, Aguirre P, DeLellis RA, Scully RE |title=Adenoma malignum (minimal deviation adenocarcinoma) of the uterine cervix. A clinicopathological and immunohistochemical analysis of 26 cases |journal=Am. J. Surg. Pathol. |volume=13 |issue=9 |pages=717–29 |year=1989 |month=September |pmid=2764221 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | |||
Images: | |||
*[http://www.ajronline.org/content/195/2/517/F30.expansion Tunnel cluster (ajronline.org)]. | *[[www]]: | ||
**[http://surgpath4u.com/caseviewer.php?case_no=477 Tunnel cluster (surgpath4u.com)]. | |||
**[http://www.ajronline.org/content/195/2/517/F30.expansion Tunnel cluster (ajronline.org)]. | |||
==Wolffian duct hyperplasia== | ==Wolffian duct hyperplasia== | ||