Difference between revisions of "Uterine cervix"

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*Nests of cells with basaloid rim and squamoid center.
*Nests of cells with basaloid rim and squamoid center.
**Basaloid cells look benign.
**Basaloid cells look benign.
==Glassy cell carcinoma==
===General===
*Rare.
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=pmid11393075>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Reis-Filho | first1 = JS. | last2 = Fillus Neto | first2 = J. | last3 = Schonemann | first3 = E. | last4 = Sanderson | first4 = A. | last5 = Schmitt | first5 = FC. | title = Glassy cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix. Report of a case with cytohistologic and immunohistochemical study. | journal = Acta Cytol | volume = 45 | issue = 3 | pages = 407-10 | month =  | year =  | doi =  | PMID = 11393075 }}</ref>
*Epithelioid cells in sheets or cords.
*Round/oval nucleus.
*One or more prominent nucleoli.
*Abundant finely vacuolated eosinophilic to amphophilic cytoplasm.
*Distinct cell borders.
*Inflammation.
DDx:
*[[Squamous carcinoma]].


=See also=
=See also=
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