PMC459232_01
Uterus: non communicating cavity, hematometra and two leymiomata are visible. One of the two cervical appendages is visible in the right upper side. A serous cyst (lined with mesothelial cells) is in the low left side.
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F1
Gross examination of uterus (Fig. 1) evidenced a "non communicating" uterine cavity, filled with menstrual blood, and two intramural leiomyomata (30 mm each) among a diffusely hypertrophic miometrium.
A glandular structure in the cervical appendage lined by flattened mucus secreting cells
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F2
These structures were lined by different types of epithelium; some cystic spaces were filled with mucous fluid and lined by flattened mucus secreting cells, as in Nabothian cysts (Fig. 2); glandular ducts and cysts lined by mono and bilayer non mucinous epithelium were also present; finally large dilated ducts with micro papillary intraluminal budding of pseudo stratified epithelium were present.