1 The Medical College of Pennsylvania, 3300 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19129
The report of Eller, et al. on the prognosis in newborn infants with X-chromosomal abnormalities prompts this note.
Because of our interest in cytogenetic factors in carcinogenesis, a routine buccal smear for sex chromatin is performed on all our patients with amenorrhea or irregular vaginal bleeding.
Recently a 26-year-old woman with dysmenorrhea and irregular periods was seen. She had a mass arising from the cervix which was subsequently diagnosed as an unusual exophytic type of squamous cell carcinoma.