Psammoma bodies on routine cervical smear

Psammoma bodies in a cervical smear in association with borderline ovarian epithelial malignancy.

Psammoma bodies in malignant pleural mesothelioma.

A 55-year-old never-smoker housewife presented with cough and exertional dyspnea. Chest computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a right superior paravertebral mass, irregular nodular thickening of the right pleura, and mediastinal lymphadenopathy (Picture A). A CT-guided needle biopsy showed a papillary pattern of cuboidal tumor cells that were positive for calretinin and cytokeratin 5/6 and nega...

Cervical Screening (Cervical Smear Test)

Cervical cancer is the third or fourth most common female malignancy worldwide, causing an approximate 529,828 new cases each year. [1] It occurs much more frequently in developing countries. In the UK it is now the 17th most common female cancer, and accounts for 1% of female deaths from cancer. [2] Age-standardised mortality rate for the UK was 2.2 per 100,000 in 2012 (2.1 in England and Wale...

Cervical Screening (Cervical Smear Test)

Worldwide cervical carcinoma is the second most common female malignancy, causing approximately 500,000 new cases each year. [2] The age-standardised (European) annual incidence rate of cervical cancer is 13.2 per 100,000 females. [2] Age-standardised mortality rate for the UK was 2.9 per 100,000 in 2008. [3] 85-90% are squamous cell cancers and approximately 15% are adenocarcinomas, which are ...

The abnormal cervical smear ALBERT

Squamous cervical cancer (which comprises 95% of all cervical cancers) is completely preventable if its precancerous stages of dysplasia, carcinoma in situ (now called cervical intraepithelial neoplasia), or microinvasive cancer are detected and treated. Detection is relatively simple and entails analysis of a sample of cells exfoliated within the ectocervix and endocervix. Exfoliative cytology...