Difference between revisions of "Uterine cervix"

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 ===Microscopic===
-Features:
+Features:<ref name=pmid10757337>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Zaino | first1 = RJ. | title = Glandular lesions of the uterine cervix. | journal = Mod Pathol | volume = 13 | issue = 3 | pages = 261-74 | month = Mar | year = 2000 | doi = 10.1038/modpathol.3880047 | PMID = 10757337 | url = http://www.nature.com/modpathol/journal/v13/n3/full/3880047a.html }}</ref>
-*Nuclear changes - '''key feature''':
+#Nuclear changes - '''key feature''':
-**Nuclear crowding.
+#*Variable nuclear stratification.
-**Nuclear hyperchromasia.
+#**Nuclear crowding/pseudostratification.
-**Cigar-shaped nuclei.
+#*Nuclear enlargement.
-*+/-Mitoses.
+#**Often cigar-shaped nuclei.
-*Cytoplasmic hyperchromasia.
+#*Coarse chromatin.
+#*Small nucleolus or nucleoli.
+#+/-Mitoses.
+#+/-Reduced cytoplasmic mucin.
+#Preservation of glandular architecture.
+#*Normal gland spacing - lack of complexity.
+#*Normal gland depth (subjective).
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