CHAPTER 21 OBJECTIVES: PATHOLOGY

1. EXPLAIN WHY WOMEN TEND TO DEVELOP OSTEOPOROSIS AFTER MENOPAUS.

2. NAME THE MOST COMMON STD OF WOMEN AND THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH
IT.

3. WHAT IS THE TRANSFORMATION ZONE OF THE CERVIX AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

4. EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF ANNUAL PAP SMEAR SCREENING.

5. EXPLAIN WHY ENDOMETRIOSIS MAY CAUSE INFERTILITY.

6. DEFINE FIBROID TUMOR OF THE UTERUS.

7. EXPLAIN WHY ECTOPIC PREGNANCY IS DANGEROUS.

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8. NAME THE THREE DIAGNOSITC COMPONENTS OF PREECLAMPSIA (TOXEMIA), AND
EXPLAIN HOW ECLAMPSIA IS DIFFERENT.

9. NAME THE CELL FROM WHICH MOST BREAST CANCERS ARISE.

10. IN BIOPSY REPORTS OF THE CERVIX, DYSPLASIA IS CALLED CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL

NEOPLASIA (CIN). WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN CIN-1 AND CIN-2?

11. DEFINE INFERTILITY AND HOW COMMON IS IT?

12. DEFINE ABORTION AND HOW COMMON IS IT?

13. WHAT IS FIBROCYSTIC CHANGE IN THE BREAST AND HOW COMMON IS IT?

14. CLINICALLY, FIBROCYSTIC CHANGE COMES TO THE PATIENT’S ATTENTION

BECAUSE_________________________