SEER Training Modules
11/27/12 - The NCI is working on updating materials.
Autopsy Example 1 (Page 2)
Final Pathological Diagnosis
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia diagnosed in May 1982 and treated with one intravenous injection of nitrogen mustard
- At autopsy, chronic lymphocytic leukemic infiltrates in liver and bone marrow
- Signet ring cell carcinoma of stomach (linitis plastica) diagnosed in November 1991
- At autopsy, metastatic signet ring cell carcinoma in esophagus, colon, liver, gallbladder, common bile duct, pancreas, mesentery, right lung, adrenal glands, spleen, mediastinal and abdominal lymph nodes, prostate gland and bone marrow
- Adenocarcinoma of the right bronchus locally invasive, (micro). No evidence of distant metastases
- Mild perivascular fibrosis, myocardium
- Arteriosclerosis: aorta, severe: coronary arteries, moderate
- Congestion and edema, lungs
- Anthracosis, lungs
- Diverticulosis, colon
- Fibrinous peritonitis
- Congestion of the viscera
- Adenomatous hamartoma, pancreas
- Submucosal fibrosis, ureters
- Mild bilateral hydronephrosis
- Arteriolar nephrosclerosis, bilateral
- Benign stromal and glandular hyperplasia, prostate gland
- Myelofibrosis secondary to metastatic signet ring cell carcinoma
- Surgical absence of appendix
- Healed surgical scar, skin of abdomen, right lower quandrant
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