Current topics in pathology of gynecological tumors: A selective review

Over the last decade, the application of new technologies - largely immunohistochemistry and molecular genetics - to the study of gynecologic tumors has provided new insights into their pathogenesis. Attempts to integrate the results of these investigations into the conventional clinicopathologic features of the tumors have been made. In this review, which does not intend to be comprehensive, several selected topics dealing with the pathogenesis of gynecologic neoplasms are briefly presented.