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'''Clear cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix''' is a rare malignancy of the [[uterine cervix]] that classically is associated with DES exposure. It typically occurs in younger women. | '''Clear cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix''', also '''cervical clear cell carcinoma''', is a rare malignancy of the [[uterine cervix]] that classically is associated with diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposure. It typically occurs in younger women. | ||
==General== | ==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> | ||