Tumours of the Female Lower Genital Tract Classification and Pat
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Tumours of the Female Lower Genital Tract Classification and Pathology
With 141 Figures and 2 Tables
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RANADHIRBARUA, M.D., F.R.C.P.A., M.I.A.C.
Senior Consultant Department of Histopathology and Cytopathology The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woodville, South Australia 5011 Australia Address for correspondence: 6, Airport Rd, Brooklyn Park 5032 South Australia
ISBN-13:978-3-642-74830-1 e-ISBN-13:978-3-642-74828-8 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-74828-8
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Barua, Ranadhir, 1928-Tumours of the female lower genital tract: classification and pathology / Ranadhir Barua. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Generative organs, Female-Tumors-Classification. 2. Generative organs, Female-Tumors -Histopathology. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Vaginal Neoplasms-classification. 2. Vaginal Neoplasmspathology. 3. Vulvar Neoplasms-classification. 4. Vulvar Neoplasms-pathology. WP 15 B295t] RC280.G5B38 1990 616.99'267-dc20 DNLM/DLC for Library of Congress 90-9761 CIP This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is only permitted under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and a copyright fee must always be paid. Violations fall under the prosecution act of the German Copyright Law. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990
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Preface
Classifications of vulval and vaginal tumours, like those of tumours of many other areas of the human body, are incomplete. There is an ever-increasing number of reports of newly identified tumours arising at unexpected sites. With our new knowledge, many tumours have been regrouped, put into different or altogether new categories, or their nature and histogenesis questioned. Some tumours still defy classification. During the past decade, a number of uncommon tumours and tumour-like conditions have been reported from this area of the female genital tract I have not seen any recent classification including all these lesions. Thus, I have attempted here to organise them, with the more familiar common tumours, into a classification which, given the information availab
