Abstract

A variant of mixed adenosquamous carcinoma of the endometrium was encountered in 5 of 68 patients (7.4 per cent) with mixed adenosquamous carcinomas of the endometrium. A sixty patient had an isolated area of glassy cell carcinoma in an otherwise typical adenosquamous carcinoma. The ground-glass appearance of the cytoplasm, the distinctive nucleus with prominent nucleoli, the numerous mitoses, and the similarity of this tumor to previously described glassy cell cervix cancers all suggest that the tumor is glassy cell carcinoma. Four of the five tumors behaved in an aggressive manner.

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