Osseous metaplasia of the cervix: A rare transformation

Although numerous cases of endometrial osseous metaplasia appear in the literature, only 6 cases of osseous metaplasia of the cervix have been reported since 1982. A 30 years old nulligravida women was referred to our colposcopy clinic with cervical mass. General, gynecologic and colposcopic assessm...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inJournal of the Turkish German Gynecological Association Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 58 - 59
Main Authors Elkattan, Eman, Abdelbadei, Mona, Abdelmoaty, Hatem, Ali, Eman, Samir, Dalia, Kheidr, Hala
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Turkey Galenos Publishing House 01.03.2015
AVES
Subjects
Case Report
cervix
colposcopy
Osseous metaplasia
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Although numerous cases of endometrial osseous metaplasia appear in the literature, only 6 cases of osseous metaplasia of the cervix have been reported since 1982. A 30 years old nulligravida women was referred to our colposcopy clinic with cervical mass. General, gynecologic and colposcopic assessments were done. The patient had an excision biopsy. Diagnosis of cervical osseous metaplasia was confirmed on histologic examination. The cervical epithelium has the potency to differentiate to multiple types of epithelium including osseous epithelium.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 23
ISSN:1309-0399
1309-0380
DOI:10.5152/jtgga.2015.68466