ILOs

• Normal structure and significant developmental abnormalities involving these tissues, and key events, processes and effects including hormonal effects on the endometrium and changes during the menstrual cycle
• adenomyosis and endometriosis; benign endometrial polyps; endometrial hyperplasia without and with atypia; endometrial adenocarcinoma; smooth muscle tumours of the myometrium.
• leiomyoma / fibroid (common) and leiomyosarcoma rare); endometrial stromal tumours,  malignant mixed mullerian tumours (MMMT); gestational pathology (partial and complete mole, chorioncarcinoma)

• Here’s a diagram outlining the gross anatomy of the gynaecological tract…
• Saggital view through the female pelvis…
• A diagram of the uterus, showing where the endometrium is located…
• Explain how the normal uterus develops, and where the abnormalities are related to…
• Diagrams showing us different abnormalities of the uterus…
• What’s the basic histology of the uterus?
• Here’s a slide showing us the endometrium in the proliferative phase…
• Let’s look at the endometrium in the secretory phase!
• Now… time for the endometrium in the menstrual phase…
• In a post-menopausal lady, here’s what we’d see in a section from a hysterectomy specimen…
• Here’s a picture of the myometrium…

Endometriosis and Adenomyosis

• Explain what endometriosis and adenomyosis is, the sites where they occur and the clinical symptoms…
• What are the theories for the pathogenesis of endometriosis and adenomyosis?
• Here’s endometriosis seen… in the omentum…