FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

EMBRYOLOGY ORGANS ANATOMY HISTOLOGY

EXTERNAL GENITALIA

VULVA

ROUNDED HAIR-BEARING ELEVATION

MONS PUBIS ADIPOSE TISSUE
OF SKIN ANTERIOR TO THE PUBIS

PROMINENT HAIR-BEARING FOLDS OF ADIPOSE TISSUE AND THIN LAYER OF

TWO LAOBIOSCROTAL SKIN EXTENDING POSTERIORLY FROM SMOOTH MUSCLE WITH NUMEROUS
LABIA MAJORA
FOLDS THE MONS PUBIS TO UNITE SWEAT & SEBACEOUS
POSTERIORLY IN THE MIDLINE

GLANDS
HAIRLESS FOLD OF SOFT SKIN

MESENCHYMAL TWO UROGENITAL ADIPOSE TISSUE, SPONGY CONNECTIVE

SWELLINGS FOLDS LABIA MINORA FOURCHETTE TISSUE WITH ELASTIC FIBERS, &
NUMEROUS SEBACEOUS GLANDS

PREPUCE AND FRENULUM

STRATIFIED SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM

ONE
BETWEEN THE FOLDS OF THE LABIA
GENITAL CLITORIS
MINORA SUPERIORLY
TUBERCLE TWO ERECTILE BODIES

EPITHELIALY ENCLOSED
PHALLUS VAGINAL ORIFICE HYMEN
FIBROVASCULAR TISSUE

ANTERIOR TO VAGINAL ORIFICE AND OPENINGS OF THE

URETHRAL ORIFICE
BENEATH THE CLITORIS PARAURETHRAL GLANDS

INTERNAL GENITALIA STRATIFIED SQUAMOUS

MUCOSA NONKERATINIZED
EPITHELIUM
MUSCULAR TUBE THAT EXTENDS
VAGINA MUSCULARIS
UPWARD AND BACKWARD BETWEEN
THE VULVA AND UTERUS

ADVENTITIA
 FUNCTIONALIS

ENDOMETRIUM BASALIS

FUNDUS STRATUM
MYOMETRIUM SUBMUCOSUM

STRATUM
SEROSA
VASCULARE
UTERUS BODY

STRATUM
SUPRAVASUCLARE
WOLFIAN DUCT SIMPLE COLUMNAR
LUMEN
EPITHELIUM

CERVIX
STRATIFIED
SIMPLE
MESODERM EXTERNAL SQUAMOUS
COLUMNAR
SURFACE NONKERATINIZED
EPITHELIUM
EPITHELIUM

MULLERIAN DUCT INFUNDIBULUM

MUCOSA
AMPULLA

FALLOPIAN TUBE LAYERS MUSCULARIS

ISTHMUS

SEROSA
INTRAMURAL
PARTS
PART

ROUND TUNICA
CAPSULE
ALBUGINEA
MESOTHELIAL CELLS FOLLICLES
BROAD
OVARIAN
CORTEX
CARDINAL FOLLICLES
MESENCHYMAL SUPPORTING
OVARY
CELLS STROMA
UTEROSACRAL
MEDULLA CONNECTIVE
TISSUE CELLS
LIGAMENTS
PRIMORDIAL GERM INFUDIBULOPELVIC INTERSTITIAL
OOCYTES CELL
CELLS
OVARIAN HILAR CELLS
 MONTGOMERY GLANDS

BENIGN DISEASES
COPPER’S LIGAMENT FIBROUS SEPTA

BREAST
FIBROCYSTIC DISEASE BENIGN TUMORS
NIPPLE STRATIFIED SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM

FIBROADENOMA
AREOLA WITH SEBACEOUS GLANDS; NO
ADIPOSE TISSUE

PAPILLOMA
GLANDULAR EPITHELIUM SEPARATED
BEFORE PREGNANCY
FROM THE STROMA
METHODS FOR DETECTION
FOLLICULAR PHASE: STROMA IS LESS
INSPECTION DENSE AND LUMINAL DUCTS
EXPANDS WITH NO SECRETION
PHYSICAL EXAM NONPREGNANT MENSTRUAL CYCLE
PALPATION LUTEAL PHASE: INCREASE DENSITY OF
STROMA AND DUCTS ARE WITH
SECRETIONS
SELF BREAST EXAM
MAMMOGRAPHY
ATROPHY OF BREAST LOBULES WITH
POSTMENOPAUSAL PHASE ADIPOSE TISSUE REPLACING THE
IMAGING TECHNIQUES ULTRASONOGRAPHY BREAST TISSUE

DUCTS INCREASE IN NUMBER AND

MRI LENGTH OF BRANCHES
BIOPSY PROLIFERATION OF SECRETORY
PREGNANT/LACTATING ALVEOLI

MYOEPITHELIAL CELLS BECOME

HIGHLY BRANCHED STELLATE CELLS
REDUCTION IN ADIPOSE TISSUE, BUT
MENSTRUAL CYCLE INCREASE N WHITE BLOOD CELLS

OVARIAN CYCLE ENDOMETRIAL CYCLE GYNECOLOGIC PELVIC EXAMINATION

CYCLE
EXTERNAL GENITALIA
FOLLICULAR PHASE BIMANUAL
MENSTRUAL PHASE FUNCTIONALIS LAYER IS SHED OFF
PALPATION
INTROITUS
PRIMORDIAL FOLLICLE PRIMARY FOLLICLE
REEPITHELIALIZATION OF THE LINING
PROLIFERATIVE PHASE RECTAL EXAM
OF THE ENDOMETRIUM VAGINA AND CERVIX
GRAAFIAN FOLLICLE ANTRAL FOLLICLE
SECRETORY PHASE THICKENING OF ENDOMETRIUM DUE TO EDEMA AND
ACCUMULATION OF GLYCOGEN SECRETIONS IN
LUTEAL PHASE CORPUS LUTEUM ENDOMETRIAL GLANDS