[Adeno-epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix. An opinion on the so-called cervical adenocancroid]

The so-called adenocancroid of the cervix represents a relative rare type of tumors. The diverse morphological criterions are shown on hand of 10 personel observations and are distinguished between forms of combination and collision. The histological findings of these epithelial mixforms motify a closer occupation with the formal genesis of this cervical carcinoma. In the formal genesis of the cervical carcinoma. In the formal genesis of carcinoma of the cervix, a decisive role is being played by the proliferation of differentiated intermitotic cells (reserve cells) in the course of indirect metaplasia. Consequently the majority of carcinoma of the cervix, are not squamous-cell-carcinoma, but bipotent-cell-carcinoma. The bipotent qualities of these cells are also maintained in malignant degeneration and enable in rare cases a secondary differentiation running in two different directions. The confusing denotation "adenocancroid" should be replaced by the definition "adeno-epidermoid-carcinoma of the cervix".