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OBSTETRICS AND GYNÆCOLOGY
Author(s) -
N F.W.,
J. A. Sampson,
J. H. Carstens
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1958.tb58515.x
a bloody discharge in 93 per cent. Women should be educated as to the importance of this symptom. Following the types of epithelium of the cervix, the carcinoma may be of squamous-cell or cylindrical-cell type (adeno-carcinoma). These growths may occur either on the vaginal portion of the cervix, or within the cervical canal. Both may be vegetative (cauliflower) or infiltrative (ulcerative) in form. The squamous-celled growth arising from the vaginal surface of the cervix is the most easily diagnosed and the least malignant. The difficulty of diagnosis and the malignancy is greater in the infiltrative forms. Most malignant of all is the adeno-carcinoma of the cervical canal.