Liver and pancreatobiliary system

• cytology of the liver and pancreatobiliary system
  20 August 2016

  Practical Tips in Cytology of the Liver and Pancreatobiliary System for the Surgical Pathologist (Martha Bishop Pitman, M.D.)
  1. A liver FNA that produces "dirty necrosis" is metastatic colon cancer until proven otherwise.
  2. Clusters of hepatocytes surrounded by endothelial cells are malignant.
  3. Malignant cells wrapped by endothelial cells are hepatocellular carcinoma
  4. Cell blocks and/or core biopsy with FNA is more accurate than either alone for diagnosis of liver masses.
  5. Bile (...)

• pancreatobiliary tract cytology
  27 May 2016

  Practical Tips in Cytology of the Liver and Pancreatobiliary System for the Surgical Pathologist (Martha Bishop Pitman, M.D.)
  1. A liver FNA that produces "dirty necrosis" is metastatic colon cancer until proven otherwise.
  2. Clusters of hepatocytes surrounded by endothelial cells are malignant.
  3. Malignant cells wrapped by endothelial cells are hepatocellular carcinoma
  4. Cell blocks and/or core biopsy with FNA is more accurate than either alone for diagnosis of liver masses.
  5. Bile (...)

• cholangiocarcinoma
  28 August 2007

  cholangiocarcinomas; bile duct carcinoma; biliary duct adenocarcinoma WP PO
  Definition: Cholangiocarcinoma is an adenocarcinoma arising from intrahepatic bile duct epithelial cells.
  Cholangiocarcinoma is an adenocarcinoma. Cells have pleomorphic round nuclei, and eosinophilic cytoplasm. It is positive for markers of adenocarcinoma such as MOC-31, and Ber-EP4 and positive for markers suggestive of cholangiocarcinoma: CK7 and CK19.
  Images
  Whipple gross specimen common biliary duct (...)

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