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Patient history: 58 year-old woman diagnosed with rectal adenocarcinoma that was treated with rectal resection. It was also simultaneously perfomed hystero-salping-oophorectomy.

The image is a low power micrograph of the myometrium.

Question 1: Identify two kinds of pathological features.

- The myometrium has a nodular appearance (stipled lines) and dialated cysts, consistent with adenomyosis (arrows), i.e. endometrial glands displaced into the myometrium.