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→Uncommon types of cervical cancer: +glassy cell carcinoma
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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= | ||