page_title: Navicular cell
hierarchical_section_title: Navicular cell
caption_attribution_description: English: Micrographs showing navicular cells. Pap stain. Navicular means boat-shaped. Navicular cells have folded edges. They are benign. Related images NC - high mag. NC - very high mag. NC - very high mag. NC - extremely high mag. NC - high mag. NC - very high mag. NC - very high mag. NC - extremely high mag.
context_page_description: Navicular cell is a boat-shaped benign epithelial cell seen in Pap smear. They are seen in pregnancy, second half of menstrual cycle, during menopause and in women using medroxyprogesterone acetate for contraception. Navicular cells have folded edges, with a thickened outer rim of cytoplasm and an eccentric nucleus. They contain abundant glycogen in the cytoplasm, giving it a central yellow halo. The cytoplasm appears golden, refractile and granular under the microscope. In depo-provera users, the high progesterone levels result in more exfoliation of superficial squamous cells, thereby causing navicular cells to appear in Pap smear.
context_section_description: Navicular cell is a boat-shaped benign epithelial cell seen in Pap smear. They are seen in pregnancy (most prominently during smears taken in the second trimester), second half of menstrual cycle, during menopause and in women using medroxyprogesterone acetate (depo-provera) for contraception. Navicular cells have folded edges, with a thickened outer rim of cytoplasm and an eccentric nucleus. They contain abundant glycogen in the cytoplasm, giving it a central yellow halo. The cytoplasm appears golden, refractile and granular under the microscope. In depo-provera users, the high progesterone levels result in more exfoliation of superficial squamous cells, thereby causing navicular cells to appear in Pap smear.
caption: Micrograph showing navicular cell in extremely high magnification
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