Cytologic Features of Malignant Lymphoma of the Uterine Cervix - A case report -

자궁경부 악성 림프종의 경부-질 도말소견 - 1 증례 보고 -

  • Kim, Nam-Hoon (Department of Pathology, Hanyang University College of Medicine) ;
  • Park, Chan-Kum (Department of Pathology, Hanyang University College of Medicine) ;
  • Ko, Young-Hyeh (Department of Pathology, Hanyang University College of Medicine) ;
  • Park, Moon-Hyang (Department of Pathology, Hanyang University College of Medicine) ;
  • Lee, Jung-Dal (Department of Pathology, Hanyang University College of Medicine)
  • 김남훈 (한양대학교 의과대학 병리학교실) ;
  • 박찬금 (한양대학교 의과대학 병리학교실) ;
  • 고영혜 (한양대학교 의과대학 병리학교실) ;
  • 박문향 (한양대학교 의과대학 병리학교실) ;
  • 이중달 (한양대학교 의과대학 병리학교실)
  • Published : 1995.06.30

Abstract

The uterine cervix is an uncommon site of primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Although the cytologic findings of NHLs are well known, most cervicovaginal smear of uterine NHLs give lower diagnostic yield than common epithelial malignancy because abnormal cells do not appear in the sample in the absence of surface ulceration. Herein, we describe cytologic findings of a case of uterine cervical NHL which was initially diagnosed by cervicovaginal smear. The tumor cells were relatively uniform, isolated, large-sized with scanty cytoplasm and round or indented nuclei. The nuclei had stippled chromatin and small nucleoli. Histologically and immunohistochemically the tumor was proven to be large cell lymphoma of T-cell lineage.

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