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Remember to try your hand at the QUIZ at the bottom of this page!
I. MINDMAPS: Click on the underlined title below to access these VIDEO MINDMAPS.
(Use the “video speed controller plugin in Chrome to speed up video – check your emails for instructions!)
1. Approach to Neoplasia – The Big Picture
2. Recognising Neoplasia – Morphology
3. How neoplasms arise – Pathogenesis
II. EXERCISE on gross morphology of neoplasms
Try your hand at describing and diagnosing some tumours HERE.
III. Video gallery MACRO and MICRO descriptions
Click here: A uterine tumour (Gross)
Click here: A uterine tumour (Micro)
A gastric tumour (Gross)
A breast tumour (Micro)
IV. Image Gallery
Here are more picture to practice your diagnostic skills on. Can you try to STAGE the malignant tumours too?
Click on the annotated picture icons to enlarge them.
1. Colon tumour:
2. Ovary – Mature cystic teratoma
This is a special type of germ cell tumour that has tissues of more than one germ layer origin (eg. ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm). Can you spot the different tissue types?
3. Tumour arising from the skin of the foot:
4. Lymph nodes. Here is a section of some abnormal lymph nodes. Describe this in your head before you view the annotated pictures.
Feel like you know more about Neoplasia? Click on the POST-QUIZ button below!