adenoid basal lesions of the uterine cervix evolving terminology and clinicopathological concepts子宫颈腺样基底的病变发展的术语和临床病理的概念.pdfVIP

Diagnostic Pathology BioMed Central Review Open Access Adenoid basal lesions of the uterine cervix: evolving terminology and clinicopathological concepts Michael J Russell1,2 and Oluwole Fadare*1,3 Address: 1Department of Pathology, Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, TX, USA, 2San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium Residency Program in Pathology, San Antonio, TX, USA and 3Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA Email: Michael J Russell - michael.russell@; Oluwole Fadare* - oluwolefadare@ * Corresponding author Published: 15 August 2006 Received: 25 July 2006 Accepted: 15 August 2006 Diagnostic Pathology 2006, 1:18 doi:10.1186/1746-1596-1-18 This article is available from: /content/1/1/18 © 2006 Russell and Fadare; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The epithelial proliferations that are designated adenoid basal carcinoma (ABC) in the current classification from the World Health Organization represent 1% of all cervical malignancies. These lesions may be associated, and occasionally show morphologic transitions with, conventional cervical malignancies. The determination of the precise frequency with which these so-call