The Journal of the Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology
Online ISSN : 1882-7233
Print ISSN : 0387-1193
ISSN-L : 0387-1193
Cytology and histology in case of lymphosarcoma of uterovaginal region
Nobuyuki IBAOsamu IWANARIIsao MATSUNAGAFuminori MURAOManabu KITAO
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1982 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 112-115

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A 29 y. o. female patient (gravida 1, para 1) was contined atypical genital bleeding since puerperal. About 4 months after puerperal when she developed tumor on chest wall and cervical tumor formation. According to histopathological findings of above tumors, which diagnosed as Lymphosarcoma. This patient died at about 8 months after puerperal. Vaginal smear cytological studies (Papanicolaou Stain) were made of above rare case of cervical Lymphosarcoma.
In the result of above studies, the tumor cells are characteristically slightly larger than normal small lymphocyte, round forms and met merely differences of shape, with scanty cytoplasm. The nucleus are characteristically slightly variable in size and shape but some are round to oval while others are wedgeshaped and cleaved formation. And the nucleus revealed pale, increased of fine granular or rough granular chromatin, the circumference of nucleus manifested thick and the number of nucleoli tends to be low (1 or 2) and basophilic.
By means of above findings, this case was diagnosed as mid cellular type (B cell type) of diffuse cellular lymphoma owing to the classification of LSG.
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