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    "id": "THING-Q761745",
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    "registry_id": "vr.tr.epoophoron",
    "name": "epoophoron",
    "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an epoophoron, record its anatomical state, and distinguish the remnant itself from adjacent structures and associated lesions.",
    "definition": "The epoophoron is a vestigial collection of mesonephric tubules situated in the mesosalpinx between the ovary and uterine tube.",
    "scope_statement": "This model owns the anatomical identity, location, component structure, developmental attribution and observed condition of the epoophoron under vr.tr.epoophoron, using human anatomy as the provisional reference scope.",
    "in_scope": [
      "Mesonephric tubule remnants identified as the epoophoron",
      "Laterality and relationships to the ovary, uterine tube and mesosalpinx",
      "Observed tubules and any associated longitudinal duct component",
      "Evidence supporting anatomical identification",
      "Local structural changes and relationships to separately modelled lesions"
    ],
    "out_of_scope": [
      "The ovary and its follicles",
      "The uterine tube and its transport function",
      "The paroophoron as a separate anatomical remnant",
      "The entire mesonephric duct remnant system",
      "Paraovarian cysts or tumours as independent pathological entities",
      "Patient-level diagnosis and treatment planning"
    ],
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      "Look for a remnant between the ovary and uterine tube in the lateral mesosalpinx; proximity to the ovary alone is insufficient identification.",
      "Distinguish it from the more medial paroophoron by documented anatomical relationships.",
      "Seek a small tubular remnant organisation rather than ovarian tissue or the continuous uterine tube.",
      "Distinguish a local epoophoron complex from a separately documented mesonephric duct remnant elsewhere.",
      "Do not identify every paraovarian or paratubal cyst as an epoophoron; location and developmental origin require separate evidence."
    ],
    "characteristics": [
      {
        "name": "Anatomical side",
        "kind": "category",
        "unit_or_values": "left | right | indeterminate",
        "why_it_matters": "Separates observations of the two adnexal regions and prevents accidental merging."
      },
      {
        "name": "Relationship to adnexal landmarks",
        "kind": "relation",
        "unit_or_values": "documented position relative to ovary, uterine tube, mesosalpinx and paroophoron",
        "why_it_matters": "Topography is central to distinguishing neighbouring remnants."
      },
      {
        "name": "Identification status",
        "kind": "state",
        "unit_or_values": "identified | suspected | not visualised | indeterminate",
        "why_it_matters": "Failure to visualise a small remnant does not establish anatomical absence."
      },
      {
        "name": "Observed extent",
        "kind": "measurement",
        "unit_or_values": "mm, with axes, method and specimen condition",
        "why_it_matters": "Records actual size without treating an unsupported reference range as diagnostic."
      },
      {
        "name": "Observed tubule count",
        "kind": "measurement",
        "unit_or_values": "count, with examined extent and counting method",
        "why_it_matters": "Describes the remnant without assuming all tubules were visible or sampled."
      },
      {
        "name": "Longitudinal duct relationship",
        "kind": "relation",
        "unit_or_values": "connection demonstrated | adjacent duct observed | not demonstrated | not assessed",
        "why_it_matters": "Separates demonstrated structural continuity from inferred developmental association."
      },
      {
        "name": "Local structural condition",
        "kind": "state",
        "unit_or_values": "no alteration observed | dilated tubules | associated cystic lesion | other alteration | indeterminate",
        "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the remnant's observed condition from a separate lesion diagnosis."
      },
      {
        "name": "Identification evidence",
        "kind": "category",
        "unit_or_values": "dissection | operative observation | histology | imaging | literature attribution",
        "why_it_matters": "Determines which anatomical conclusions the observation can support."
      }
    ],
    "affordances": [
      "Annotate an observed remnant against ovarian, tubal and mesosalpinx landmarks.",
      "Compare candidate identification with the paroophoron and other nearby structures.",
      "Record measured extent and tubular organisation with observation limits.",
      "Link specimen sections or images to the same anatomical instance.",
      "Associate a nearby lesion while retaining uncertainty about its tissue of origin."
    ],
    "agent_conduct": {
      "may": [
        "Describe the epoophoron and its location for education, citing anatomical sources.",
        "Explain that cysts can arise near it and that diagnosis belongs to a clinician."
      ],
      "must_not": [
        "Diagnose a person's pelvic condition from images or symptoms.",
        "Share a person's imaging or medical records without consent.",
        "Present a cyst near this structure as harmless or dangerous without clinical assessment.",
        "Use anatomical images of a real person without consent."
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "Any clinical decision about a person's pelvic findings.",
        "Publishing images from a patient's records."
      ]
    },
    "ethics": {
      "considerations": [
        "Reproductive health information is private and sensitive.",
        "Wrong reassurance or alarm can harm patients."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "Patients",
        "Clinicians",
        "Students"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "The person in whose body it lies; clinicians hold medical records of findings.",
      "master_systems": []
    },
    "visual_identification": [
      "A small group of vestigial tubules in the broad ligament between ovary and uterine tube.",
      "Seen in dissection or histology; not visible on the body surface."
    ],
    "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
      "Cysts that can be mistaken for other pelvic masses.",
      "Over-diagnosis from incidental findings on imaging."
    ],
    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "Terminologia Anatomica, Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology (FIPAT)."
    ],
    "what_it_is_for": [
      "The epoophoron is encountered in reproductive anatomy, embryology and examination of tissues near the ovary and uterine tube.",
      "Recognizing this developmental remnant helps distinguish normal vestigial structures from neighboring anatomy and associated cysts.",
      "It has no established essential reproductive function in the adult."
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "wikidata",
      "title": "Wikidata item Q761745: epoophoron",
      "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q761745",
      "url_status": "live",
      "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item",
      "checked_by": "wikidata-api"
    },
    {
      "id": "wikipedia-en",
      "title": "Wikipedia: Epoophoron",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoophoron",
      "url_status": "live",
      "what_it_supports": "general description of the item",
      "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink"
    }
  ],
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    "bundles": [
      {
        "id": "anatomical-identity",
        "name": "Anatomical identity",
        "description": "Establish what the epoophoron label denotes and how confidently it applies.",
        "rationale": "A small adnexal remnant can be mislabelled through proximity or ambiguous terminology.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "name-and-referent",
            "name": "Name and referent",
            "description": "Connect terminology to the registered anatomical concept.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "epoophoron-referent",
                "name": "Epoophoron referent",
                "description": "The epoophoron is a mesonephric tubule remnant near the ovary and uterine tube. Reference: [Elsevier Complete Anatomy](https://www.elsevier.com/resources/anatomy/urogenital-system/female-genital-system/epoophoron-left/22457).",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Does the label denote the remnant itself, a lesion attributed to it, or merely an adnexal location?",
                    "kind": "definition",
                    "id": "epoophoron-referent-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which anatomical reference or specimen record supports mapping the label to vr.tr.epoophoron?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "epoophoron-referent-q02"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "developmental-attribution",
            "name": "Developmental attribution",
            "description": "Keep embryological interpretation distinct from observed adult structure.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "mesonephric-components",
                "name": "Mesonephric components",
                "description": "Record the basis for assigning tubules and any associated duct to mesonephric derivatives, without treating inferred origin as direct observation.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which observed components are interpreted as mesonephric tubule remnants?",
                    "kind": "definition",
                    "id": "mesonephric-components-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What evidence supports the developmental attribution of any associated longitudinal duct?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "mesonephric-components-q02"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "adnexal-topography",
        "name": "Adnexal topography",
        "description": "Locate the remnant within the relationships that distinguish it.",
        "rationale": "The position relative to the ovary, tube and other remnants is more informative than an isolated label.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "ovary-tube-interval",
            "name": "Ovary-tube interval",
            "description": "Record side and placement within the mesosalpinx.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "lateral-mesosalpinx-position",
                "name": "Lateral mesosalpinx position",
                "description": "The usual location is between the ovary and uterine tube in the lateral mesosalpinx. Reference: [Elsevier Complete Anatomy](https://www.elsevier.com/resources/anatomy/urogenital-system/female-genital-system/epoophoron-left/22457).",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "On which side and between which directly identified landmarks was the remnant observed?",
                    "kind": "measurement",
                    "id": "lateral-mesosalpinx-position-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is it demonstrably separate from ovarian tissue and the uterine tube?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
                    "id": "lateral-mesosalpinx-position-q02"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "neighbouring-remnants",
            "name": "Neighbouring remnants",
            "description": "Resolve boundaries with the paroophoron and other duct remnants.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "paroophoron-distinction",
                "name": "Paroophoron distinction",
                "description": "The paroophoron lies medial to the epoophoron; orientation therefore matters when assigning either name. Reference: [Elsevier Complete Anatomy: Paroophoron](https://www.elsevier.com/resources/anatomy/urogenital-system/female-genital-system/paroophoron/17504).",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What preserved landmarks establish that this remnant is lateral rather than the more medial paroophoron?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
                    "id": "paroophoron-distinction-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Does a separately observed duct belong within the local complex or require a linked anatomical record?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
                    "id": "paroophoron-distinction-q02"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "tubular-organisation",
        "name": "Tubular organisation",
        "description": "Describe the remnant's visible components and their continuity.",
        "rationale": "Tubular organisation helps identify the epoophoron, but incomplete observation can obscure its structure.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "tubule-pattern",
            "name": "Tubule pattern",
            "description": "Capture the arrangement and extent actually observed.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "observed-tubules",
                "name": "Observed tubules",
                "description": "Record distinguishable tubules, their orientation and the examined area without imposing a fixed count as an identity criterion.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How many distinct tubules can be resolved, and by what observation method?",
                    "kind": "measurement",
                    "id": "observed-tubules-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What are the measured extent and orientation of the tubular group relative to the ovary?",
                    "kind": "measurement",
                    "id": "observed-tubules-q02"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "duct-continuity",
            "name": "Duct continuity",
            "description": "Distinguish visible connections from structures that merely lie together.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "longitudinal-connection",
                "name": "Longitudinal connection",
                "description": "Treat continuity between tubules and a longitudinal duct as a claim requiring explicit observational support.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is a longitudinal duct visible, and can a connection to the tubules be traced?",
                    "kind": "measurement",
                    "id": "longitudinal-connection-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Could sectioning, tissue disruption or limited resolution explain an apparently absent connection?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
                    "id": "longitudinal-connection-q02"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "condition-and-interpretation",
        "name": "Condition and interpretation",
        "description": "Record alterations while preserving the limits of anatomical identification.",
        "rationale": "A lesion near the remnant and an altered remnant are different observations with different evidential requirements.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "local-alterations",
            "name": "Local alterations",
            "description": "Describe changes and their demonstrated relationship to remnant tissue.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "lesion-association",
                "name": "Lesion association",
                "description": "Record dilation or an associated mass separately from any claim that the lesion originated in the epoophoron.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Are the remnant's tubules altered, or is a separate lesion merely adjacent to them?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
                    "id": "lesion-association-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What continuity or tissue evidence supports attributing the lesion to the epoophoron?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "lesion-association-q02"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "observation-limits",
            "name": "Observation limits",
            "description": "Determine what the available examination can establish.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "identification-confidence",
                "name": "Identification confidence",
                "description": "Keep suspected identity, nonvisualisation and demonstrated anatomy distinct when interpreting an examination or specimen.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Did the examination include enough oriented mesosalpinx tissue to assess the expected location?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "identification-confidence-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What additional anatomical documentation or specimen review would resolve the specific identification uncertainty?",
                    "kind": "action",
                    "id": "identification-confidence-q02"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment",
        "name": "Evidence and external alignment",
        "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.",
        "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "reported-evidence",
            "name": "Reported evidence",
            "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "evidence-confidence-notes",
                "name": "Check these first",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  "This entry denotes a normal vestigial anatomical structure, not a device or a disease.",
                  "No numerical anatomical identifier or typical dimensions are supplied from recall.",
                  "A parovarian cyst's location alone does not establish origin from the epoophoron."
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of epoophoron this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "id": "evidence-identifiers",
                "name": "Identifiers and schemes",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  {
                    "scheme": "Terminologia Anatomica",
                    "value_or_pattern": "epoophoron",
                    "note": "An anatomical structure also historically called the parovarium or organ of Rosenmüller."
                  }
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of epoophoron this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "id": "evidence-real-world-use",
                "name": "Real-world use",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  "An anatomical landmark in descriptions of female mesonephric remnants.",
                  "Relevant to the embryological interpretation of some parovarian cysts."
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of epoophoron this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards",
                "name": "Failure modes and hazards",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  "Cystic dilatation of its remnants can contribute to parovarian cyst formation.",
                  "A sufficiently large associated cyst can contribute to adnexal torsion."
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of epoophoron this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "id": "evidence-neighbours",
                "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  {
                    "name": "paroophoron",
                    "difference": "Another vestigial mesonephric tubule remnant, generally situated more medially in the broad ligament than the epoophoron."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Gartner duct",
                    "difference": "A persistent remnant of the mesonephric duct, rather than the collection of mesonephric tubules constituting the epoophoron."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "ovary",
                    "difference": "The functional female gonad; the epoophoron is a separate vestigial structure adjacent to it."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "parovarian cyst",
                    "difference": "A cyst beside the ovary, whereas the epoophoron is an anatomical remnant; parovarian cysts have several possible tissue origins."
                  }
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of epoophoron this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should the registry concept cover human anatomy only or homologous structures across specified species?",
    "Which anatomical terminology authority should determine whether the longitudinal duct is included within the epoophoron boundary?",
    "What contemporary evidence establishes age-related variation in persistence, dimensions and detectable tubule count?",
    "Which histological criteria reliably distinguish epoophoron tissue from neighbouring remnants when specimen orientation is lost?",
    "What evidence is sufficient to attribute a paraovarian cyst specifically to the epoophoron?"
  ],
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    "layers": 9,
    "findings": 13,
    "questions": 21
  }
}
