Difference between revisions of "Uterine cervix"

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**Peg cells - "tall" and "skinny".
**Peg cells - "tall" and "skinny".
***Columnar/golf tee-like appearance.
***Columnar/golf tee-like appearance.
**Clara cells - round central nucleus, pale cytoplasm.
**Ciliated cells - cilia, pale cytoplasm, round central nucleus.
**Secretory cells - non-ciliated, basophilic cytoplasm, round small basal nuclei.


DDx:
DDx:
*[[Endocervical adenocarcinoma in situ]].
*[[Endocervical adenocarcinoma in situ]].
Image:
*[http://www.nature.com/modpathol/journal/v13/n3/fig_tab/3880047f17.html Tubal metaplasia (nature.com)].


===IHC===
===IHC===
Features:<ref name=pmid8803599>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Marques | first1 = T. | last2 = Andrade | first2 = LA. | last3 = Vassallo | first3 = J. | title = Endocervical tubal metaplasia and adenocarcinoma in situ: role of immunohistochemistry for carcinoembryonic antigen and vimentin in differential diagnosis. | journal = Histopathology | volume = 28 | issue = 6 | pages = 549-50 | month = Jun | year = 1996 | doi =  | PMID = 8803599 }}</ref>
Features:<ref name=pmid8803599>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Marques | first1 = T. | last2 = Andrade | first2 = LA. | last3 = Vassallo | first3 = J. | title = Endocervical tubal metaplasia and adenocarcinoma in situ: role of immunohistochemistry for carcinoembryonic antigen and vimentin in differential diagnosis. | journal = Histopathology | volume = 28 | issue = 6 | pages = 549-50 | month = Jun | year = 1996 | doi =  | PMID = 8803599 }}</ref>
*Vimentin +ve.
*Vimentin +ve.
*CEA -ve.
*CEA -ve/+ve.
*p16 -ve.{{fact}}
*p16 -ve.{{fact}}


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