Clinical and Morphological Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Yakimova T. P. 2007

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Cervical smear — a group of koilocytes with pronounced fatty degeneration of the cytoplasm and severe dysplasia (cellular atypia), featuring very large nuclei with nucleoli and a disrupted nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio, highly suspicious for progression to cancer. Pappenheim stain (x630)

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Fig. 54. Cervical smear showing a group of koilocytes with marked fatty degeneration of the Cytoplasm and severe Dysplasia—cellular atypia characterized by very large nuclei with nucleoli and an altered nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio, suspicious for malignant transformation. Pappenheim stain (x630).



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