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Neoplastic or reactive lesions presenting at the fallopian tube as a primary site of involvement are uncommon. The fallopian tube is most often received for intraoperative frozen section evaluation as part of a salpingo-oophorectomy specimen. The primary disease site may not always be accurately determined by preoperative imaging studies or the surgeon’s intraoperative assessment, and the specimen sent to pathology as an ovarian/adnexal mass occasionally may reveal a primary fallopian tube disease process. The most common primary fallopian tube lesions include epithelial neoplasms—benign, borderline, or malignant—embryonal remnants and cysts (e.g., paratubal cyst), endometriosis, inflammatory conditions, and ectopic pregnancy.
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Hui, P., Buza, N. (2015). Fallopian Tube. In: Atlas of Intraoperative Frozen Section Diagnosis in Gynecologic Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21807-6_7
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