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Image: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adenosquamous_carcinoma_high_mag.jpg Adenosquamous carcinoma - high mag. (WC)]. | Image: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adenosquamous_carcinoma_high_mag.jpg Adenosquamous carcinoma - high mag. (WC)]. | ||
==Clear cell carcinoma== | ==Clear cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix== | ||
*[[AKA]] ''cervical clear cell carcinoma''. | |||
===General=== | |||
*Associated with ''diethylstilbestrol'' exposure ''in utero''.<ref name=pmid19857300>{{Cite journal | last1 = van Dijck | first1 = JA. | last2 = Doorduijn | first2 = Y. | last3 = Bulten | first3 = JH. | last4 = Verloop | first4 = J. | last5 = Massuger | first5 = LF. | last6 = Kiemeney | first6 = BA. | title = [Vaginal and cervical cancer due to diethylstilbestrol (DES); end epidemic] | journal = Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd | volume = 153 | issue = | pages = A366 | month = | year = 2009 | doi = | PMID = 19857300 }}</ref> | *Associated with ''diethylstilbestrol'' exposure ''in utero''.<ref name=pmid19857300>{{Cite journal | last1 = van Dijck | first1 = JA. | last2 = Doorduijn | first2 = Y. | last3 = Bulten | first3 = JH. | last4 = Verloop | first4 = J. | last5 = Massuger | first5 = LF. | last6 = Kiemeney | first6 = BA. | title = [Vaginal and cervical cancer due to diethylstilbestrol (DES); end epidemic] | journal = Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd | volume = 153 | issue = | pages = A366 | month = | year = 2009 | doi = | PMID = 19857300 }}</ref> | ||
*Like clear cell carcinoma elsewhere. | |||
===Microscopic=== | |||
Features: | |||
*Like [[clear cell carcinoma]] elsewhere: | |||
**+/-Clear cytoplasm. | |||
**Cells have large free/luminal surface area (hobnailing pattern) and small non-free surface. | |||
**Moderate-to-severe [[nuclear pleomorphism]]. | |||
==Small cell carcinoma== | ==Small cell carcinoma== | ||