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Primary Site. The vagina extends from the vulva upward to the uterine cervix (Figure 34.1). It is lined by squamous epithelium with only rare glandular structures. The vagina is drained by lymphatics toward the pelvic nodes in its upper two-thirds and toward the inguinal nodes in its lower third.
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Compton, C.C., Byrd, D.R., Garcia-Aguilar, J., Kurtzman, S.H., Olawaiye, A., Washington, M.K. (2012). Vagina. In: Compton, C., Byrd, D., Garcia-Aguilar, J., Kurtzman, S., Olawaiye, A., Washington, M. (eds) AJCC Cancer Staging Atlas. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2080-4_34
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