| The epithelium lining the cyst is columnar.
The nuclei are dark, basal, and lack mitotic activity or prominent nucleoli.
The cytoplasm contains mucin.
The cell borders are well demarcated. |
| The epithelium lining the cyst is columnar.
The nuclei are dark, basal, and lack mitotic activity or prominent nucleoli.
The cytoplasm contains mucin.
The cell borders are well demarcated. |
| Mucinous Cystadenoma |
| Etiology |
unknown |
| Pathogenesis |
derives from germinal (surface) epithelium epithelium pinched off into ovarian stroma
following rupture of follicle may undergo metaplasia and secretion |
| Epidemiology |
reproductive age
women |
| Clinical |
reproductive age women adnexal mass symptoms of heaviness or pressure if large cured with surgical cystectomy 5% bilateral |
| General Gross Description |
may achieve enormous size smooth external surface unilocular cyst or one with few septae contains clear, yellow, slimy fluid smooth, thin lining |
| General Micro Description |
columnar epithelium with mucin containing
cells usually identical to endocervical or intestinal epithelium bland stroma |
| Reference |
Cotran RS, Kumar V, Robbins SL: Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease. 5th ed. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1994, pp. 1066-8.
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