Primer
Leslie H. Sobin
  1. Introduction
  2. Injury & necrosis
  3. Inflammation
  4. Infection
  5. Tumors
  6. Cardiovascular system
  7. Respiratory system
  8. Urinary tract

Reproductive organs

The systems for our reproduction
Have gonads for gamete production
But lesions which manage
To cause the most damage
Harm channels for sex cell conduction.

It's especially true for infections
Which establish abnormal connections
As exudates issue
Then heal with scar tissue
Most difficult to make corrections.

Gonococci cause such inflammations
In tube and urethral locations
And tuberculosis
Can lead to necrosis
In genital tract situations.

Some hormonal forms of dyscrasia
Cause uterine breast hyperplasia
Both solid and cystic
In patterns artistic
It's possibly preneoplasia.

The cervix has polyps benign
With surface quite smooth and stalk fine
Through the os they protrude
Mucus from glands exude
Which gives them a coating that shines.

Leiomyomas are found
In the uterine wall where they're round
They have good prognosis
When without mitosis
And weighing much less than a pound.

The ovary is frequently tumorous
Has types of cell growth that are numerous
From germ cells and stroma
Cystodenoma
Expand to become quite voluminous.

Between testis and ovary's a bond
They have cancers which well correspond
Like seminomas
And dysgerminomas
To X-rays we know both respond.

The testis like ovary's a pair
Of interest it is to compare
It's common for growth
Found in ovaries both
But bilateral in testis is rare.

The breast is all covered with skin
Having ducts stroma acini within
Contour round contour flat
Is a function of fat
It responds to the glands endocrine.

Breast cancers will mainly arise
From ducts microscopic in size
They spread to the nodes
Then take various roads
Hormones may growth supervise.

Scirrhous breast cancers are those
Where fibrosis is superimposed
On duct cells in stroma
A firm carcinoma
Calcium sometimes it shows.

The male urogenital tract
Runs from testis to penis and back
Including the vas
Epididymas
The prostate and seminal sac.

The prostate is shaped like a pear
Inverted so top has the flare
And as we grow older
Its nodules grow bolder
Urethra's compressed so we care.

Prostatic cancer's diffuse
Growing cells in the stroma profuse
Surrounding the nerves
In the capsule observed
Resection may serve little use.

Cancers of prostate like bone
They grow there as if it were home
When osteoblastic
The X-rays look drastic
The pelvis is dense as a stone.

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  2. Gastrointestinal tract
  3. Skeletal system
  4. Reproductive organs
  5. Endocrine glands
  6. Lymphoid & hematopoietic tissues
  7. Skin & soft tissues
  8. Nervous system