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Cervix: Inflammatory Disease and Miscellaneous Non-Neoplastic Conditions

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Atlas of Gynaecological Pathology

Part of the book series: Current Histopathology ((CUHI,volume 5))

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Normally the cervical stroma contains a population of plasma cells, lymphocytes, eosinophils and histiocytes which is concentrated immediately beneath the surface epithelium: a failure to recognize this as a normal phenomenon frequently leads to an unwarranted diagnosis of cervical inflammation.

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Fox, H., Buckley, C.H. (1983). Cervix: Inflammatory Disease and Miscellaneous Non-Neoplastic Conditions. In: Atlas of Gynaecological Pathology. Current Histopathology, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7312-2_7

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