Cervix

Benign / nonneoplastic epithelial lesions

Mesonephric rests and mesonephric hyperplasia



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PubMed Search: Mesonephric hyperplasia cervix

Carlos Parra-Herran, M.D.
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Cite this page: Parra-Herran C. Mesonephric rests and mesonephric hyperplasia. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/cervixmesonephrichyper.html. Accessed March 18th, 2024.
Definition / general
Case reports
Microscopic (histologic) description
  • Mesonephric duct remnants appear as groups of round glands and tubules, lined by simple flat to low cuboidal epithelium
  • Glandular lumen is usually filled with a dense eosinophilic PAS positive, diastase resistant material; mucinous or ciliated cells are not identified
  • Hyperplasia of mesonephric ducts is characterized by a glandular population similar to mesonephric remnants but larger, more irregular and haphazardly distributed with increase in lobule size and extensive involvement of the cervix
  • Either lobular, diffuse (bland glands, no stromal reaction) or ductal patterns (large, dilated or irregular ducts in wall of cervix with micropapillary budding of pseudostratified epithelial cells without atypia); lobular is the most frequent
  • Small round mesonephric tubules are often deep within cervical wall and extend to cervical surface
  • May appear infiltrative
  • No back to back glandular crowding, no nuclear atypia, no angiolymphatic invasion, no perineural invasion
Microscopic (histologic) images

Contributed by Michela Campora, M.D., Carlos Parra-Herran, M.D. and AFIP
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Mesonephric hyperplasia

Marked tubular proliferation


More nuclear variation

Bland glands deep in cervical stroma

Clusters of mesonephric tubules

Mesonephric remnants

Cuboidal cells

Focal squamous metaplasia

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