Chapter 8 Neoplasia
b. Example—tubular adenoma (adenomatous polyp) arising from glands in the colon (Fig. 8-1A; see Fig. 17-37)
(1) Neoplastic cells have two different morphologic patterns but derive from the same germ cell layer.
• Lung, distal esophagus to rectum, pancreas, liver, breast, endometrium, ovaries, kidneys, prostate
b. Loss of the cells causes more cancer cells to go into the cell cycle; hence debulking the tumor as these cells also get destroyed.
c. Seeding
(1) Primary surface-derived ovarian cancers (e.g., serous cystadenocarcinoma) commonly seed the omentum.
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(A from Bouloux P: Self-Assessment Picture Tests: Medicine, Vol. 1. London, Mosby-Wolfe, 1997, p 70, Fig. 140; B from Kumar V, Fausto N, Abbas A: Robbins and Cotran’s Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th ed. Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 2004, p 1052, Fig. 21-35; C from Bouloux P: Self-Assessment Picture Tests: Medicine, Vol. 3. London, Mosby-Wolfe, 1997, p 11, Fig. 21; D from Rosai J, Ackerman LV: Surgical Pathology, 9th ed. St. Louis, Mosby, 2004, p 2187, Fig. 24-92; E from Damjanov I: Pathology for the Health-Related Professions, 2nd ed. Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 2000, p 303, Fig. 11-18.)
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