. The diagnosis of diseases of women . sp the cervix with a tenaculum, and with knife or scissors removea wedge including part of the suspected portion and part of theapparently healthy tissue. Following the incision catgut suturesare used to close the wound, and the vagina is packed with anaesthetic is desirable, though not absolutely necessary. Fig. 149 iy & ;j;-S;■■■■;:■ . ^ ^:A ^IJ::\ )ll.«^ --*^ I Squamous-cell carcinoma of the cervix. The microscopic appearance of an infiltrating squamous-cell carci-noma of the cervix is that of many layers of flat epithelium varyinggreatly


. The diagnosis of diseases of women . sp the cervix with a tenaculum, and with knife or scissors removea wedge including part of the suspected portion and part of theapparently healthy tissue. Following the incision catgut suturesare used to close the wound, and the vagina is packed with anaesthetic is desirable, though not absolutely necessary. Fig. 149 iy & ;j;-S;■■■■;:■ . ^ ^:A ^IJ::\ )ll.«^ --*^ I Squamous-cell carcinoma of the cervix. The microscopic appearance of an infiltrating squamous-cell carci-noma of the cervix is that of many layers of flat epithelium varyinggreatly in size and in form from the normal epithelium of thevaginal portion. The cells may be no larger than a leukocyte, orconsiderably larger than normal. The nuclei are relatively large, DIAGNOSIS OF CARCINOMA OF THE UTERUS 355 often segmented. They take a deep stain and show many karyo-kinetic figures. A variable amount of protoplasm surrounds thenuclei. The cells, grouped in irregularly projecting columns, invade Fig. 150. Proliferation of the superficial columnar epithelium. The new-formed epithelium is seento invade the connective tissue in the act of forming a malignant gland. the underlying tissues and may finally wholly replace the the margins of these projecting columns is a round-cell infil-tration of the connective-tissue stroma. Cross-sections of these Fig. 151


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