Difference between revisions of "Adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix"

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*Adenocarcinoma of the cervix is much less common than squamous dysplasia of the cervix/SCC of the cervix.
*Adenocarcinoma of the cervix is much less common than squamous dysplasia of the cervix/SCC of the cervix.
*Arises from the endocervical glands.
*Arises from the endocervical glands.
*Usually [[HPV]] related.
*Non-HPV related adenocarcinoma may be syndromic - [[Peutz-Jeghers syndrome]], [[Li-Fraumeni syndrome]].<ref name=pmid26457350>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Karamurzin | first1 = YS. | last2 = Kiyokawa | first2 = T. | last3 = Parkash | first3 = V. | last4 = Jotwani | first4 = AR. | last5 = Patel | first5 = P. | last6 = Pike | first6 = MC. | last7 = Soslow | first7 = RA. | last8 = Park | first8 = KJ. | title = Gastric-type Endocervical Adenocarcinoma: An Aggressive Tumor With Unusual Metastatic Patterns and Poor Prognosis. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 39 | issue = 11 | pages = 1449-57 | month = Nov | year = 2015 | doi = 10.1097/PAS.0000000000000532 | PMID = 26457350 }}</ref>


==Microscopic==
==Microscopic==