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| * all images with kind permission of the authors |
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Epithelial fragment of a cervical adenocarcinoma in a smear, PMT1 (DNA). In the original Papanicolaou-stained smear, no details or mitotic figures were visible.
The fragment looked solid, devoid of a glandular lumen. In this section, each nucleus is visualized and a mitotic figure can be discerned. In the lower part of the section a glandular lumen becomes visible (this became larger in the adjacent serial sections).
Mathilde E Boon, Leiden Cytology and Pathology Laboratory, PO box 16084, 2301 CB Leiden, The Netherlands.
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