Enlarged Specimens for the Week

See this? It's an ovary. Normal ones are supposed to be close to the size of an adult thumb. Now this is just a piece of the entire specimen (I don't have the picture of the uterus and the rest this was attached from on the post).

The patient has a diagnosed case of endometrial carcinoma clinically. I'm guessing this one is either a different cancer on the same organ system or an extension of the disease.

This is the bread loaf sections used to visually more surface area of the specimen. Just so I don't miss out parts I need to sample. During cutting, I just imagine I'm a cooking master chef trying to do this fast (with slashing sounds from my mouth when no one is looking).

For those curious about what came about the old huge ovary on my previous posts? At first it was mucinous ovarian carcinoma considered, then I moved to large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma and finally settling in to mucinous cystadenocarcinoma. I forgot to take pic of the microscopic look as blogging about it wasn't on the top 5 to do list when at work :P

I'm on quarantine and the entire department is reduced to 2/8 to 3/8 manpower with only the former looking like the real scenario unless my test result turns negative tomorrow.

I still got a lot of placentas to cut, some more female internal genitalia, gallbladder, appendix, and other odd specimens of the week. I would really appreciate not to be quarantined as work doesn't stop even when I'm sick. It just piles up or gets passed onto someone else.

If you made it this far reading, thank you for your time.

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