Cytological findings of cervical adenocarcinoma

Abstract

Nineteen women with cervical adenocarcinoma were studied in order to investigate the cytological features of cervical adenocarcinoma that was suspicious in cytodiagnosis. The cytological specimens of patients were compared to those of normal women. Cytological findings in the cytologically suspicious cases of cervical adenocarcinoma were as follows.
1. The arrangement of atypical cells was “side by side” and the amount of chromatin was increased.
2. In the specimens of the one group of the suspicious cases were observed atypical cells whose nucleuses were more enlarged than those of normal cells. Their cellular atypism was nuclear enlargement and anisokaryosis and nuclear pleomorphism, but this atypism was not so striking as the atypism of the cytologically positive cases of cervical adenocarcinoma.
3. In the specimens of the other group of the suspicious cases were observed atypical cells whose nucleuses were the same size as those of normal cells. Their cellular atypism was anisokaryosis and nuclear pleomorphism and elongated form of nucleus.