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Basement membranes are found wherever plasma membranes of parenchymal cells come into contact with connective tissue elements as seen by electron microscopy (Vracko 1974). Opinions about the existence of a basement membrane in cervical epithelium have previously been rather controversial (Ashworth et al. 1961). Ever since the basement membrane in this tissue had been demonstrated to exist, it has attracted considerable attention; particularly because of the unsettled question of the role which is played by the basement membrane in the transition of carcinoma in situ in to invasive carcinoma. The determination of the invasive status of cervical carcinoma depends, to a large extent, on the structural integrity of the basement membrane underlying the neoplastic epithelium (Coppleson 1976). Most investigators of cervical neoplasma have focused on the absence or presence of the basement membrane rather than on its morphology in different conditions such as dysplasia, carcinoma in situ and invasive carcinoma.
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Spornitz, U.M., Hafez, E.S.E. (1982). Morphology of the Basement Membrane in Carcinoma of the Cervix. In: Hafez, E.S.E., Smith, J.P. (eds) Carcinoma of the Cervix. Developments in Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7485-2_18
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