Foreign body salpingitis

Fallopian tubes
Salpingitis
Foreign body salpingitis

Topic Completed: 1 March 2013

Revised: 18 December 2018

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PubMed Search: Fallopian tubes salpingitis foreign body

Related topics: Acute salpingitis, chronic salpingitis, granulomatous salpingitis, ligneous salpingitis, pseudoxanthomatous salpingitis, salpingitis specific causes, xanthogranulomatous salpingitis

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Etiology | Gross description | Microscopic (histologic) description

Cite this page: Riddle N, Shutter J. Foreign body salpingitis. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/fallopiantubesforeignbody.html. Accessed May 26th, 2019.

Etiology

Due to lubricant jelly, mineral oil, radiographic contrast media, starch, talc; rarely typhlitis (J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 2001;23:253)
Note: lipoid granulomas may also occur with gonococcal or TB salpingitis

Gross description

Yellow or chocolate brown resembling endometriosis

Microscopic (histologic) description

Foamy histiocytes (if due to lipid), foreign body giant cell reaction extending to serosa